The supporters from the Borei Keila (see here) and Boeung Kak Lake (see here and here) communities gathered again in front of the police barricade set up on the access road to the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on the second day (see the first day here on my Tumbl’r page) of the trial of Yorm […]
The trial of Tim Sakmony (from the Borei Keila community) and Yorm Bopha (from the Boeung Kak Lake community) took place at the Phnom penh Municipal Court this afternoon, with some 250 supporters facing the police at one end of the blocked road. Both accused spent more than 114 days in pre-detention and were declared […]
It was a long wait for the many supporters but Chan Soveth, a Human Rights investigator with the NGO ADHOC, walked out of the Phnom Penh Municipal Court as a free man. He was accused of having helped people in relation to a so-called ‘secessionist movement’ in Kratie’s Broma village last May, when a 16-year […]
Nope… It is not a christmas tree. It is part of the 30,000 signatures collected by Amnesty International requesting an end to illegal land grabbings in Cambodia also exhibited at a demonstration where more than 11,000 signatures collected in Cambodia on the same topic were handed over at the National Assembly… See here. This is […]
Two Boeung Kak Lake communities (here and here), one already evicted and the other under threat of an eviction, the Borei Keila community (here) and representatives of the Pochentong community requested a meeting with the World Bank related to its re-engagement with the governement after the bank suspended its lendings in 2011 in view of […]
About 400 human Rights activists (see also here for what happened on International Human Rights Day) gathered in front of the National Assembly to deliver a petition of over 40,000 signatures, collected by Amnesty International, regarding land issues and Human Rights. But it was done with a twist: the participants did it ‘Gangnam’ style and […]
Yay!!! ‘Quest for Land’ is in the ‘Top Digital Photobooks‘ on Martin Brink’s blog…
Yesterday night was the first time a projection with about 50 photographs from ‘Quest for Land’ was shown in a Cambodian public venue: the Royal University of Phnom Penh, accompanied by the Ponleu Selapak musicians. And guess what? There was no riot… Thank you PPhoto and Christian Caujolle for your ignorance of self-censorship. Tonight the […]