I have added a set of pictures with landscapes of development sites in Phnom Penh on my website. No people. No evictees. No victims. Just landscapes… Thousands of people were evicted from most of these sites. I haven’t got a clue where most of these people are now. Back in their native village? I doubt […]
A few more landscape pictures of development sites where people were evicted from… The development of Koh Pich Island continues. The Garuda head was removed from the middle bridge for unknown reasons. The Northern bridge where the stampede killing over 300 people during the Water Festival took place, has changed colour from orange to green. […]
The sand pumped into Boeung Kak Lake by development company Shukaku Inc. has now reached the North Western edge of the lake, forcing even more families out of their homes. And these are homes made out of bricks and stone, not just timber and tin sheets. Compensation: 8500$… Another compensation: the house where some of […]
Why would Shukaku Inc. celebrate Christmas anyhow? They are in a hurry to get that lake filled with sand… Regardless of the situation they put the evicted families in. They have deadlines. They develop the land, not the people…
I am always amazed at the speed with which rice is harvested here. In one month time thousands of hectares of rice fields are harvested. By hand.
Leang Seckon, maybe Cambodia’s most influential artist, had to leave the Boeung Kak studio he has been working in for the last 20 years. Check it out: I just uploaded a short story on this on my website. Here is an interview of Leang in Truthout by Anne Elizabeth Moore…
I posted on the Olympic Market eviction already. Now the whole story of the eviction is on my website (with more pictures)…
The second one is from the ‘Dear Colleagues’ selection. The other one could have been from the ‘Belgium Selection’, but it didn’t finally…