The UNESCO World Heritage site of Preah Vihear is the link… Today at 4:00PM (Phnom Penh time) the International Court of Justice will issue its verdict on the border issue between Thailand and Cambodia around the 11th century temple. Will the weaponry rattle again? Will everybody stay calm? The photographs from the previous tension are […]
So why did it take more than three years? This morning surveyors, appointed by the Phnom Penh Municipality, started measuring the surface of 32 houses which were not included in the 12,44 Ha promised by Prime Minister Hun Sen to the Boeung Kak lake community way back in August 2011, paving the way to a […]
Both the SL Garment factory and the Boeung Kak lake communities held a demonstration today. The first are locked into an endless conflict with their direction about wages and working conditions, the second are stuck into a relentless fight to see their fellow land rights activist Yorm Bopha, whom they consider unjustly imprisoned, walk free. […]
On the 35th demonstration for 2013 only that I took photographs of (not counting guest appearances during other demonstrations), members of the Boeung Kak lake community gathered in front of the Municipal Court to deliver evidence about the vicious crackdown by masked men, allegedly Phnom Penh Municipality Security Guards dressed in civilian clothes, on a […]
The Boeung Kak lake community, caught in a seemingly endless land issue since 2007, held its 34th demonstration for the year 2013. Well, that is the 34th I took photographs of… I did miss a few protests in those last 10 months. And that is also without counting the numerous ‘guest appearances’ during protests held […]
The Borei Keila community which was evicted in January 2012 (see HERE) and which lives in apalling conditions underneath the buildings they were promised an appartment in staged its first march towards the Municipality to air their complaints. They were met by rather inefficient police cordons on the way and, once they started blocking the […]
Members of the Boeung Kak lake community showed up at the Ministry of Interior to support the official complaint they lodged at the Municipal Court regarding the injuries some of their members sustained during a peacefull vigil they held in the night of September 22nd which was viciously disrupted by masked thugs. More on Boeung […]
The buddhist monks leading the protest march to celebrate World Habitat Day by communities which were evicted or are under threat of being evicted, were fluid and fast like a furious river passing the police dams. And fearless too. Things do have changed since a couple of months: there is less fear from the authorities. […]