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 […]
For the third consecutive year the Water Festival in Phnom Penh was cancelled. The first two times for a good reason. Not so sure about the third reason though… Here is one photograph of what I believe was the first Water Festival after the war. The others are from tonight’s atmosphere near the riverside pagoda… […]
The workers from SL Garment factory, specialised in various wet and dry processes for denim jeans for Levi’s, Wrangler, Zara, Union Bay, J. Crew, Nautica and other famous Western brands are still on strike in front of the factory gates, blocking the road with a tent. Day before yesterday, with their social conflict in its […]
Yet another march by the SL Garment factory workers who are on a strike since the month of August for a rise in wages. It turned very ugly this morning. Some members of the riot police forces who stopped the demonstrators at the Stung Meanchey bridge opened fire with their handgun when trying to push […]
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 Borei Keila community, seeking a solution from the municipal authorities regarding their precarious habitat following their January 2012 eviction, marched to town hall again, following a rather predictable scenario: the community first pours through a roadblock set up by the police and then a roadblock set up by the community in front of the […]