Yesterday evening there was a house. This morning there isn’t… The owners of the house I took pictures of on the 13th and which is not included in the on-site development program for the 750 Boeung Kak families, held out as long as they could before accepting the Shukaku development deal in the night.
Many of the remaining families obtained 12,44Ha to do an on-site development. Good… We’ll see if it really happens and how. Meanwhile about 3000 families were evicted and some others were not included in the on-site development deal. The lake is nearly full…
I didn’t feel like asking the price tag…
Ahead… Moving ahead… Phnom Penh is moving ahead. Not looking back, not looking on the sides. More here…
I read that, through a directive by the Supreme Patriarch, Luon Sovath, a Buddhist monk involved in the defence of people evicted from their land, was banned from pagodas in the capital of the Kingdom of Wonder? I thought Buddhism had a lot to do with compassion? Well not in the Kingdom of Wonder it […]
As a nice present before I leave for a couple of months to Belgium, the Prey Lang Forest community representatives came into town and held a colourfull (mostly green though) demonstration at the so-called ‘Freedom Square’. Prey Lang is probably the largest intact area of indigenous land in Cambodia. And as such in the Kingdom […]
From the refugees in Honduras story and from the Poipet eviction story… Do you remember the rules for the ‘Match’ series? Rule Nr 1: two pictures, similar in content or style, but taken 15 years apart. Rule Nr 2: rules may be overruled… Just one way to revisit the archive…
Added one more picture to the Development Landscapes story…