Boeung Kak lake members staged a protest in front of City Hall, requesting that the 39 last families finally receive the land title they were promised in a conflict which started in 2007, when the lake they were living next to was granted as a concession to a developing company which filled the lake and […]
Members of the Borei Keila community marched to the municipal court to file a complaint about the violence with which municipal security guards handled a protest by the community on Valentine’s day (see HERE). Of course there is a judicial system in Cambodia. One might as well make good use of it. But as long […]
A demonstration ban from the Ministry of Interior, a sealed off Freedom Park and the equation of important riot police forces, few workers and a fair amount of observers or journalists (at times larger than the number of workers) showing up at Freedom Park resulted in an informal demonstration/meeting/gathering/protest in the garden adjacent to the […]
In a remake of ‘You Couldn’t And Now You Can‘, the three women who were arrested yesterday and released later in the day, came back in front of City Hall to request a meeting with officials regarding a retroactive compensation for the land they lost at Boeung Kak lake. This time no arrests were made […]
Three women from Boeung Kak lake were arrested by municipal guards and thrown into a truck while they were waiting for the bulk of their community members to show up and deliver an invitation to attend a ceremony on Women’s Day to the city governor. An attempt later on to deliver the invitation to the […]
Little by little, a vast majority of the ‘hard’ land titles are being handed over to their owner, with land management clerks painstakingly checking and sifting through huge piles of documents. There are about 7 million land plots to be allocated to their rightfull owner… Fortunately for them. They now have some sort of security. […]
Members of the Borei Keila community, on this International Day of Social Justice, collected a bowl of soil from the place they were violently evicted from in 2012 and, after a few prayers, brought it to the Preah Ang Dongker riverside pagoda to rest in the urns in which revellers stick their joss sticks whent […]
The very few people who were symbolically occupying an unfinished building which was promised to the Borei Keila community more than 2 years ago if the development company Phanimex had not ‘unfortunately’ run out of money to finish the last 2 of 10 buildings, were roughhandedly expelled at 6:30 AM by municipal guards wearing ‘Lucky’ […]