Back to the Roots…
The Khmer New year holidays are over, Tep Vanny, the Community Representative who was awarded the Global Leadership Award by the Vital Voices Foundation in Washington is back in Phnom Penh… So it is back to square one on the Boeung Kak Lake issue. The community felt misquoted by the (departing) Governor of Phnom Penh and wanted to stress to Prime Minister Hun Sen the fact that they do not belong to a particular political party. A strong police force (also back from holidays) more or less managed to stop them at 150 meters from the Prime Minister’s Phnom Penh residence…
The full Boeung Kak Lake story can be found here and here, or in ‘Quest for Land’, the app for the iPad available on iTunes here.
