They Heard Him Say It…
Boeung Kak Lake inhabitants, fighting to keep their land since 2008 (here and here), hearing Prime Minister Hun Sen saying at a land titles distribution ceremony that people with land issues should come to him, took him at his word and tried to march to ‘Peace Palace’. A police blockade prevented them from leaving their neighbourhood for about an hour. Some 40 members of the community trickled through the blockade by foot and reached the Prime Minister office. After pleading for yet another hour, five of them were finally allowed to enter the Council of Ministers and were promised a meeting with Deputy Prime Minister Sok An.
This is a follow-up post on the ‘Quest for Land‘ story which is available as an iApp on iTunes.
CAMBODIA. Phnom Penh. 3/12/2012: Boeung Kak Lake inhabitants, entangled in a land issue since 2008 are prevented by the police to leave their neigbourhood when trying to deliver a petition to Prime Minister Hun Sen who said a few days earlier people with land issues should refer to him.
CAMBODIA. Phnom Penh. 3/12/2012: Tep Vanny, community representative, here photographed by police, and Boeung Kak Lake inhabitants, entangled in a land issue since 2008 are prevented by the police to leave their neigbourhood when trying to deliver a petition to Prime Minister Hun Sen who said a few days earlier people with land issues should refer to him.
CAMBODIA. Phnom Penh. 3/12/2012: Boeung Kak Lake inhabitants, entangled in a land issue since 2008 are prevented by the police to leave their neigbourhood when trying to deliver a petition to Prime Minister Hun Sen who said a few days earlier people with land issues should refer to him.
CAMBODIA. Phnom Penh. 3/12/2012: Boeung Kak Lake inhabitants, under threat of an eviction since 2008 managed to get past a first police blockade arrive in front of the ‘Peace Palace’ and request to deliver a petition to Prime Minister Hun Sen who said a few days earlier people with land issues should refer to him.
CAMBODIA. Phnom Penh. 3/12/2012: Boeung Kak Lake inhabitants, under threat of an eviction since 2008 managed to get past a first police blockade arrive in front of the ‘Peace Palace’ and request to deliver a petition to Prime Minister Hun Sen who said a few days earlier people with land issues should refer to him.