It was a busy day in front of the Municipality this tuesday. The evicted residents from Borei Keila came to denounce the living conditions they are in since their homes were rased on January 3rd. Riot police closed in and arrested 6 people, several of them having already forcibly spent time in the Prey Speu [...]
Definitely better to meet Robert Starkweather from K4Media on a sunday at Java Café instead of at my ‘office’ to iron things out for the ‘Quest for Land’ iApp. The Blueberry Berry Smoothie is a treat. There is air-con and Wi-Fi. The glasses may be empty but the very first test flights of the iApp [...]
Several families have left the forced relocation site at Phnom Bat. Land is being measured out and 4 poles to start building a new home is being distributed to those who remain. Haven’t figured out if the poles are deducted from the compensation money they are supposed to receive from Phanimex… A door-to-door salesman with [...]
Yep… We are working on it: 11 years of evictions bundled into one iApp for the iPad and hopefully for the iPhone/iPod later on. And we are working on it since quite a while in fact. If I remember well since June 2011… ‘We’ is Robert Starkweather, web designer from K4Media, Robert Carmichael and myself. [...]
Today, 3 years ago, the Dey Krohom community was brutally levelled to the ground. That story here… What happened after the eviction here…
About 50 people who were evicted from Borei Keila on January 3d and who managed to stay in Phnom Penh gathered in front of the US embassy, from where they staged a demonstration taking them to the National Assembly via the tourist spots on Sisowath Quay. They were prevented by the police to pass next [...]
Ms. Suy Sophan, head of the Phanimex company, who promised to build 10 appartment buildings for an on-site relocation at Borei Keila and finally only built 8 of them, this monday paid and organised (with the help of police, employees and guards) a rice distribution to the people she had violently evicted a few days [...]
The Borei Keila eviction story, all the way back from 2007 until last friday, is on my website… Yet another eviction to add to the seemingly never-ending Cambodian issue of land-grabbings which I covered for the last 11 years. See here… Web-designer Robert Starkweather, writer Robert Carmichael and myself are working on an iApp about [...]