The Boeung Kak Lake and the Borei Keila community piled up in tuk-tuks and headed for the Prey Sar prison, 20Km outside of Phnom Penh. They staged a demonstration in front of the gates to ask for the release of Yorm Bopha and Tim Sakmony, jailed since several days now. This is a follow-up post […]
The Boeung Kak Lake community, joined by those evicted from Borei Keila, were out in the streets again. This time to obtain the liberation of Yorm Bopha and Tim Sakmony. They managed to obtain a short talk with Mr. Phay Siphan, Council of Minister’s Spokesperson outside of the ministry’s premises… And if you think these […]
The Boeung Kak Lake community today protested the previous day’s arrest of Yorm Bopha in front of the Municipal Courthouse. They joined about 80 people from the Borei Keila community (violently evicted at the beginning of January) who were protesting the trial of one of their members. The Cambodian judicial system is frequently used as […]
Boeung Kak Lake community members Yorm Bopha and her husband were arrested by plainclothes policemen when on their way to the local administration where they were requested to answer some questions (if I understood well…). An hour later some 20 members of the community went looking for them, ending up demonstrating at the Municipal Police […]
The Boeung Kak Lake community is as vocal as ever. Evictions, destructions, threats, intimidations, lawsuits, prison: they went through it all and they go on protesting. They know they still have rights and they use them. About 50 of them marched this morning to the City Hall building to discuss the 12,44 ha for an […]
‘Development Landscapes‘ pictures places people were evicted from and is one of the 20 chapters dealing with land issues in Cambodia you can find on the ‘Quest for Land’ application for the iPad, available on iTunes. The following photographs are a follow-up on that story.
In case you didn’t notice, but Lens Blog has published a nice review about ‘Quest for Land’. I am honoured that it was Seth Mydans who wrote the article. He definitely is a journalist I show much respect for (and that was before he wrote about ‘Quest for Land’). So thank you Seth… You are […]
It seems there are plans to develop the Olympic Stadium of Phnom Penh. In Cambodia ‘developing’ mostly means ‘filling’ (like the Boeung Kak Lake) or ‘levelling’ (like the Suramarith Theatre). The stadium was built in 1964 on plans by Vann Molyvann and if it never hosted the Olympic games, it is used every day by […]