The other big village besides Sre Kor (see here) which will be drowned by the 335 square kilometers of the reservoir of the Sesan2 dam which was approved by the Cambodian government recently is called Kbal Romea. It is a Phnong community, stretched out along a dirt road covered by big trees, with the river […]
In 1989 I flew to Banlung with a helicopter (see here). As far as I remember there was nothing there: a few indigenous people’s longhouses, a hospital with one patient but no nurses or doctors, a school with plastic flowers on the teacher’s desk, a bunch of soldiers who must have reached the age of […]
But it was close… Some 60 residents from Boeung Kak Lake (see here and here) were demonstrating for the release of their fellow land rights activist Yorm Bopha in front of the Ministry of Interior when a slightly smaller group of ‘motodup’ (moto-taxi drivers) showed up and staged a counter-demonstration in favour of their colleague […]
So I turn my back for just a couple of days, working far from Phnom Penh on the ‘Three Rivers Dams’ project (see here) and then this happens: 1/ the authorities destroy the shacks of 12 Borei Keila families (see what they went through before that here). 2/ Mam Sonando goes free, albeit conditionally (see […]
All the photographs I took until now (well… the better ones only) about the ‘Three Rivers Dams’ project are available BIG in the latest update of my website at this link. While you are reading this I will be on the road to Ratanakkiri and Stung Treng to continue working on the story. Do not […]
Members of the Boeung Kak Lake community react in front of the Municipality building to a statement made by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to a Thai newspaper that they were occupying the land they are living on illegally. They came with copies of documents proving their ownership and bullhorns. The levels of noise tolerance […]
“To keep you is no benefit, to destroy you is no loss.”(Khmer Rouge slogan) I am happy to announce that ’30 Years for a Trial’, an e-book for the iPad by John Vink and Robert Carmichael is now available at the iBookstore on iTunes at this link. This e-book reports on the trial of Duch, […]
Been Kepping for the week-end, loading the batteries before returning to Ratanakkiri and work more on the ‘Three Rivers Dams’ story next week.