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I added a few pictures to the Development Landscapes series on my website…

Rainy season is getting into gear… For the second consecutive year, the Boeung Kak Lake residents will face floodings caused by the filling of the lake by development company Shukaku Inc…

After having been dispersed and arrested during the previous demonstration in front of the municipality, the Boeung Kak Lake Ladies, under threat of an eviction, came back undeterred yesterday to deliver a letter to the authorities requesting a fast resolution of their problem. The rains have only just begun to fall and their property is […]

The demonstration by the Boeung Kak Lake residents under threat of an eviction by a development company turned ugly yesterday. The demonstration, asking for an on site relocation, was broken up by riot police after the authorities had a short talk with the demonstrators, and several arrests were made. According to LICADHO the following arrests […]

The New Year celebrations and holidays are over. It is back to work for the Boeung Kak Ladies fighting their eviction. They tried to demonstrate in front of the Council for the Development of Cambodia where the annual donor meeting is (should be?) taking place. But no one important seemed to be there. They thought […]

The Boeung Kak Lake Ladies had a meeting with Kep Chuktema, Governor of Phnom Penh, at 3:00 pm yesterday. The result was quite predictable of course: no 15 Ha available for the on site relocation… But you never know do you? Because there could be money, pledged by the World Bank, to do this. There […]

The Boeung Kak Ladies went for a tour of the neighbourhood, trying to rally support for their request to obtain 15Ha for an on site relocation out of the 133Ha Shukaku Inc. is developing. Things were kept peacefull and they did not show up at the Municipality, having received a letter on their way, inviting […]

Right… Nice start of the day: security guards telling us to stop taking pictures of an ongoing demo by the Boeung Kak Lake Ladies in a public space. I mean: these are not a policemen. They might wear a uniform but they have absolutely no authority. They just THINK they have (if they are able […]