Yes, no, yes… and then finally no: the opposition CNRP meeting planned at a pagoda in Treuy Sla (Kandal) was canceled for security reasons and to avoid any confrontation with some hundred CPP sympathisers, all young camera-shy men coming mostly from outside the commune, and as much riot police occupying the ground, not to mention […]
Treuy Sla (Kandal) seemed to be under siege: riot police all over the place, in schools, in pagodas, at the police station. I spent three hours and 120Km looking for an opposition CNRP meeting with Sam Rainsy and Kem Sokha, before learning the meeting was canceled because of a heavy police presence. Meanwhile 11 people […]
A small group of peacefull activists from various human rights organisations and from IDEA, whose leader Voann Pov was severely beaten by Unit 911 on January 2nd and ended up in prison in Kompong Cham, tried to gather in front of Wat Unalom and then in front of the Royal Palace to demonstrate for the […]
Rithy Panh’s masterfull movie ‘The Missing Picture'(or how poetry can describe horror), was nominated for an Oscar in the best foreign-language film category. I was privileged enough to be allowed to follow Rithy Panh on a few of his movie sets.
Who else but the Boeung Kak lake community would dare to defy the demonstration ban set by the cambodian government after the many weeks of CNRP protests, the worker’s strike and its violent crackdown by the army? The ladies toured several embassies (the U.S., Japanese, Australian and German ones) to deliver a petition requesting the […]
Mr. Surya Subedi, U.N. Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Cambodia since 2009, held a well attended press conference after separate meetings with Prime Minister Hun sen and opposition CNRP co-Presidents Kem Sokha and Sam Rainsy. Quotes: ‘With regard to use of force against civilian demonstrations, resulting in at least four confirmed deaths by gunfire […]
The ceremony organised yesterday by the Boeung Kak lake community to honour 4 garment workers who were killed during the violent crackdown by the army on January 3rd of a garment worker’s strike (see HERE), wrapped up this morning with over 200 monks, many from the Independent Monks Network, praying and receiving alms from the […]
The Boeung Kak lake community organised a buddhist ceremony to commemorate the striking garment workers killed during the violent crackdown by the army of January 3rd (see HERE). The CNRP claims 6 workers were killed: Yean Rithy, 25, Kheng Kosol, 23, Kim Phally, ?, Sreng Vibol, 22, Ouk Pheak, 23 and Sam Ravy, 26.