Dey Krohom Eviction 5 Years On…
At 4:00AM on the morning of January 24th 2009, bulldozers and many dozens of breakers armed with crowbars had a passage opened by riot police firing tear gas through a flimsy barricade set up by the remaining inhabitants of the Dey Krohom community. It was to be one of the more violent evictions in the city of Phnom Penh.
Today the community commemorated the eviction by gathering a couple of hundred former inhabitants and sympathisers behind a 100 meter long banner stretched out in front of the place where once the Dey Krohom community stood.
A report on this eviction can be found in the application ‘Quest for Land’ available on iTunes at THIS LINK. The app gives an extensive overview about land issues in Cambodia, with over 700 photographs and an in-depth text by Robert Carmichael.
