57th Boeung Kak Lake Demonstration Since Start of 2012…
This morning it was a joint operation with the people evicted from Borei Keila and Boeung Kak lake in front of the Municipality to request a resolution of their ongoing land issues. When those from Boeung Kak lake heard that the Governor of Phnom Penh was attending a ceremony at a pagoda nearby they moved over there but he left just before they arrived.
This is (at least) the 57th (!!!!) demonstration since January 2012 involving the Boeung Kak lake community I take photographs of. I confess I have missed a few… But remember: I take photographs of them since they started demonstrating in 2007, when it was clear the lake next to which they were living was going to be filled with sand by a real estate developer and that thousands of families were going to be evicted.
More on Boeung Kak lake HERE and HERE
This is a follow-up post on the ‘Quest for Land‘ story which is available as an iApp on iTunes and which reports on land issues in Cambodia since the year 2000 with texts by Robert Carmichael and over 700 photographs.
