Sam Rainsy, President of the opposition coalition CNRP (Cambodian National Rescue Party) visited the Boeung Kak Lake community (see here and here). Having spent a few years in self-imposed exile to avoid a jail sentence for having uprooted a border post, Sam Rainsy was, with Prime Minister Hun Sen’s blessing, pardoned by King Sihamoni and […]
It is not all about demonstrations… The Boeung Kak Lake community organised a press conference a couple of hours ago as it has to face dissensions and several allegations of corruption which were triggered by a series of films posted on Youtube at the beginning of the legislative elections campaign. The origin of the films […]
Boeung Kak Lake was at it again yesterday and this morning, protesting in front of the Phnom Penh Municipality to seek a final resolution on the land issue they are entangled in since 2007. See here, and here and also see ‘Quest for Land’ an app for the iPad which covers 10 years of land […]
I honestly can’t remember how many times the Boeung Kak Lake community walked over to the Phnom Penh Municipality building over the last 4 years to hold a protest… This time it was about a follow-up on the land titles for 48 families who are to be included in the 12,44 Ha granted to the […]
The Boeung Kak Lake community staged a demonstration to request the release of Yorm Bopha, land rights activist jailed to 2 years imprisonment for allegedly having beaten up two moto taxi drivers and Amnesty International Prisoner of Conscience, in front of the Royal Palace in Phnom Penh (Cambodia) on the occasion of the Queen Mother’s […]
Boeung Kak Lake community members staged a cursing ceremony in Phnom Penh (Cambodia) this morning. They planned to drag puppets representing corrupt officials to the Council of Ministers but were prevented from doing so by units of riot police which blocked the acces roads. The puppets were then dragged onto the sand which fills the […]
Yorm Bopha, Land Rights Activist and Amnesty International Prisoner of Conscience was found guilty at her Appeals Trial in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, this afternoon. Her sentence was reduced to 2 years instead of 3 for allegedly having beaten up moto-dup drivers (with the help of her brothers who are on the run). Most of the […]
The never-shown-before-in-Cambodia exhibition ‘Quest for Land’ will remain on the walls of Meta House (Sothearos Blvd, Phnom Penh) until June 12th at 8:00AM. So this W.E. is your last opportunity. The exhibition is a short extract from the ‘Quest for Land‘ application for the iPad which contains over 700 photographs about land issues in Cambodia […]