Here are a few more photographs in the series ‘Development Landscapes’, showing the state of places where people were evicted from. The whole series, combined with landscape photographs of sites in the process of being evicted, will be featured in one of the ‘Mono’ e-books I am preparing for the iPad. There is a presentation […]
Tomorrow Cambodia enters a new period of mourning for the late King Norodom Sihanouk and demonstrations will be perceived very badly. But there is still today. And as the French Prime Minister, Jean-Marc Ayrault will be attending the ceremonies, the 11 communities under threat of an eviction staged a demonstration in front of the French […]
In the endless saga of the Boeung Kak Lake (see here, here and here): the Ministry of Interior has sent a 3rd injunction to the Municipality to finally settle things for the Boeung Kak Lake community regarding the 12,44 ha for the on-site development but mainly for the families not included in the plan. So […]
Before you leave for your well deserved week-end, how about participating in the funding of the documentary movie ‘The Cause of Progress’? There are only 4 crowdfunding days left (see here) so it is kind of NOW if you don’t want to miss the opportunity of getting that film by Chris Kelly about land issues […]
I was reminded that 4 years have passed since the violent Dey Krahom eviction (see here) took place here in Phnom Penh. Has anything changed since? At Dey Krahom things for sure are not different: since the eviction the land still stands empty, so I guess the speculation didn’t really work out as planned for […]
Boeung Kak Lake community entangled in a 4-year long land issue (see here, here and here) went to the Council of Ministers to check on a hypothetical response to the petition they delivered earlier this month. 17 other communities were supposed to join but I couldn’t spot any. (sorry only one photograph today…)
Every statement, every word will be heard by the Boeung Kak Lake community entangled in a 4-year struggle to keep their land (see here, here and here): Kep Chuktema, Governor of Phnom Penh, stated on television that those left without a land title at Boeung Kak have no right to claim rightfull ownership. So the […]
The Boeung Kak Lake demonstrations (see here, here and here) are beginning to look like flashmobs. 7 to 8 tuk-tuk’s crammed with Boeung Kak residents show up at their target, deploy banners, distribute copies of petitions, discuss with the traffic police and/or the ‘undercover’ policemen (unmasked by their beeping and squeeking icom), guards, people supposedly […]