Ditched, Stalled and Stranded…
About 200 villagers who were forcefully evicted from their land in Kratie are stuck at the Samaky Reangsey pagoda in Phnom Penh for over one month now. Threats to evict them from the pagoda are followed by promises of finding a solution. What else is there for them to do but resist, wait, sleep? They have nowhere to go anyhow, they have not much to expect. They are like thousands of other villagers in Cambodia who were pushed on the wrong side of a thin survival line. They are the discontented, frustrated citizens which could feed revolutions.
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