It is the type of question which will pop up during an open forum moderated by But Bunthen, Leader of the Independent Monk Network for Social Justice (IMNSJ), and organised by the Boeung Kak lake community who invited Y. Vireak, Director of CLEC and human rights Advocate, Tep Vanny, Land Rights Activist, Kem Ley, Researcher […]
The very few people who were symbolically occupying an unfinished building which was promised to the Borei Keila community more than 2 years ago if the development company Phanimex had not ‘unfortunately’ run out of money to finish the last 2 of 10 buildings, were roughhandedly expelled at 6:30 AM by municipal guards wearing ‘Lucky’ […]
As if we didn’t know… Members of the Borei Keila community, after a recent disagreement with the local authorities on the size of a piece of relocation land and their following occupation of a building which was promised to them at the very beginning of their endless land issue, were allowed to meet with the […]
The community of Borei Keila which was violently evicted in January 2012 (see HERE) during a lingering land issue, and has been kept in limbo for the last two years regarding their relocation. Being fed up having to live in particularly unhealthy conditions near a building they at one point were promised an appartment in, […]
The 21 workers, activists and union leaders who were arrested on January 2nd and 3rd during a violent crackdown (see HERE) by the army on a workers’ strike which also resulted in at least 4 being killed by bullets and numerous wounded, were being tried at the Appeals Court for a bail request. Only the […]
Both at several locations in Cambodia and in front of cambodian embassies abroad, a series of events were organised simultaneously to request the release of 21 workers (2 others were granted bail a few days before), activists and union leaders who were arrested during the early January crackdown by the army which resulted in the […]
About 50 members of the Civil Society Organisation, joined by 23 monks from the Independent Monk Network for Social Justice (IMNSJ), monitored by nearly as much press and human rights observers, defied the demonstration ban in Phnom Penh by praying at the Preah Ang Dongker pagoda on the riverside to ask for the release of […]
On the 3rd day of the strike by CINTRI workers about their $US75 wage, and while the rubbish is piling up on the streets of Phnom Penh, an agreement was found and the trucks to collect the garbage are rolling to town again. The heavy presence of both riot police and municipal guards certainly seemed […]