A simple memorial by a small youth group and monks to honour the memory of Mao Sok Chan who was fatally shot by the police in the aftermath of the opposition CNRP demonstration of September 15th turned quite nasty as nervous security guards from the municipality intervened several times to confiscate joss sticks and lotus […]
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 […]
The area around the new statue honouring the late King Norodom Sihanouk was finally accessible to the general public so that it could pay respect on the first anniversary of the king’s death. The rain and the barriers being closed again at 5:30PM left quite a few in the cold. The events of last year, […]
Sihanouk boulevard was sealed off from the general public, but not really to the odd tourist, for the commemoration of King Norodom Sihanouk’s death one year ago by the members of the new government.
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 […]
Called upon by Rong Chhun, President of the Cambodian Independent Teacher’s Association, about 300 teachers showed up at Freedom Park on the occasion of International World Teacher’s Day. They ask for better wages and an end of corruption which riddles the profession. 6-year old children experience their first corruption at school when they have to […]
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. […]
Hopefully it is by now common knowledge that Cambodian communities which were evicted are dragged into a spiral of pauperisation. These communities were already living on the edge. An eviction disrupts the precarious balance which kept them functioning more or less normally and the dim prospect they had of improving their situation is shattered. Leang […]