As if we didn’t know… Members of the Borei Keila community, after a recent disagreement with the local authorities on the size of a piece of relocation land and their following occupation of a building which was promised to them at the very beginning of their endless land issue, were allowed to meet with the […]
The community of Borei Keila which was violently evicted in January 2012 (see HERE) during a lingering land issue, and has been kept in limbo for the last two years regarding their relocation. Being fed up having to live in particularly unhealthy conditions near a building they at one point were promised an appartment in, […]
The community of the Boeung Kak Lake held a press conference this morning. The Boeung Kak Lake land issue is ongoing since 2007 (see HERE and HERE). It has radically transformed the lives of many inhabitants of the community. The 3000 families who were evicted by a development company from the shores of what once […]
At 4:00AM on the morning of January 24th 2009, bulldozers and many dozens of breakers armed with crowbars had a passage opened by riot police firing tear gas through a flimsy barricade set up by the remaining inhabitants of the Dey Krohom community. It was to be one of the more violent evictions in the […]
The crackdown of opposing voices continues. Tep Vanny, Yorm Bopha, Bop Chorvy, Sok Serey Leap, and Pan Chunreth, land rights activists from the Boeung Kak Lake community were arrested on their way to the French Embassy to ask help for the release of those arrested the previous days (see HERE and HERE). Sorry for the […]
If yesterday’s march (see HERE) was the bigger picture, today it is back to the smaller picture… Former Boeung Kak lake residents were protesting in front of the Municipality, supported by a delegation of human rights activist buddhist monks, members of the Independent Monks Network. UPDATED: on Dec. 24th with two more photographs from Dec. […]
If you thought Yorm Bopha’s case would be over you’d better think twice. The land rights activist and Amnesty International Prisoner of Conscience who was jailed on what human rights observers say were trumped up charges to punish her for her militantism, appeared in front of the Supreme Court this morning for her last appeal. […]
The final appeal for Yorm Bopha’s case at the Supreme Court is not due until the 22nd, but the Boeung Kak lake community was out in front of the court building to ask for the release of their fellow land rights activist who was sentenced to two years of prison on what human rights observers […]