Tep Vanny’s long struggle…
Tep Vanny will be awarded the ‘Leadership in Public Life Award’ by ‘Vital Voices’ this April 2nd in Washington DC, in the presence, so I heard, of Vice President Joe Biden and former Foreign Secretary Hillary Clinton. But if she was singled out for the award, most of the women of Boeung Kak Lake equally deserve it.
The people from Boeung Kak Lake are fighting to preserve their land. But in fact they are fighting for so much more than just their land. Their first demonstrations (see here) date from February 2008. So many years later, so many demonstrations, fights, screams, disappointments later, they go on fighting. Here are 34 photographs of Tep Vanny, taken over the years.
