Press Freedom Day
A few pictures of my colleagues during their daily chores here in Cambodia.
In that context this might also be an interesting read…
CAMBODIA. Phnom Penh. 15/06/2010: Police containing representatives of 24 rural and urban communities trying to hand over a petition signed by 60000 people to Prime Minister Hun Sen asking their land rights be shown respect.
CAMBODIA. Phnom Penh. 15/06/2010: Police threatening journalist when representatives of 24 rural and urban communities trying to hand over a petition signed by 60000 people to Prime Minister Hun Sen asking their land rights be shown respect.
CAMBODIA. O'Chroev (Prey Nup). 18/01/2001: Photographers at a ceremony to present a map of 14,000 plots to their owners before registration at the land office. There are millions of land plots waiting to be checked and registered in order to avoid land grabbing and evictions, which will take many years.
CAMBODIA. Phnom Penh. 10/03/2002: Dismantling a map made with skulls at the genocide museum of Tuol sleng, located in a school transformed into an interrogation center by the Khmer rouge. Dismantling of a map made by Vann Nath, one of two survivors of Tuol Sleng, in 1979 and made of skulls collected from nearby Choeung Ek Killing Field.
CAMBODIA. Phnom Penh. 21/04/2011: Press documenting Boeung Kak Lake resident under threat of an eviction hit by police during scuffle at demonstration in front of City Hall.
CAMBODIA. Phnom Penh. 11/02/2009: Photographers trying to take pictures of opposition leader Sam Rainsy who happened to have to stand trial at the same time as Dey Krahorm evicted at Phnom Penh Municipal Court for the trial of three of them, accused of violence on 7NG company employees.