The turnout for the 8th and final (for now) opposition CNRP march through Phnom Penh was immense, probably the biggest postwar turnout yet. A large fraction of the Cambodian people made it very clear to their party leaders Sam Rainsy and Kem Sokha that they have had enough of Prime Minister Hun Sen’s 28-year iron-fisted […]
The opposition CNRP supporters, in a bid to oust long-time Prime Minister Hun Sen from power called upon by the CNRP co-Presidents Sam Rainsy and Kem Sokha, are still gathered at Freedom Place, marching every day for the past 7 days through the streets of Phnom Penh, sleeping out in the (relative) cold. More on […]
The 6th opposition CNRP motorcade, pacing along at fast-walking speed, didn’t push too far along the streets of Phnom Penh this time. The agenda is still the same: have Prime Minister Hun Sen step down, following the July 2013 elections the CNRP claims to have won. For now, the response from the government to the […]
Opposition CNRP supporters spent their 6th consecutive night at Freedom Park, gathering strength to demonstrate yet again for Prime Minister Hun Sen to step down. Yesterday’s demonstration is HERE… More on the 2013 elections aftermath HERE.
The motorcade, organised by the opposition CNRP for the 5th consecutive day to demand that Prime Minister Hun Sen step down after the results of the Cambodian 2013 elections the CNRP claims to have won, went to the North of Phnom Penh, through streets lined with sympathisers. More on the Cambodian elections aftermath HERE.
Catching up with Cambodian elections related events in Phnom Penh, the morning after returning from abroad. Some 800-1000 people have spent their 3rd night out in the (relative) cold at ‘Freedom Place’. They are mostly too poor to go back and forth from their home in the province to the daily demonstrations organised by the […]
Just cut off some strings which tied me to Paris. A last walk up the Butte Montmartre… Feeling relieved. Back to Phnom Penh soon.
Inside the ‘cold room’ at the Magnum Paris office, where many negatives are safely stored in a fire proof, water proof (hopefully) space under a controlled temperature. I am little by little taking my negatives out of there to scan them (again) properly in Brussels. You have to live dangerously…