This morning it was a joint operation with the people evicted from Borei Keila and Boeung Kak lake in front of the Municipality to request a resolution of their ongoing land issues. When those from Boeung Kak lake heard that the Governor of Phnom Penh was attending a ceremony at a pagoda nearby they moved […]
An explosive device was found near the National Assembly and destroyed by a controlled explosion at 10:42 AM. It seems 3 other explosive devices tied together were found near a statue of Mahatma Gandhi in Phnom Penh. It is unclear who planted the devices but now the government can invoke security reasons to prohibit the […]
The previous Boeung Kak lake demonstration (see HERE), commemorating the 365th day of detention for Yorm Bopha, land rights activist and Amnesty International Prisoner of Conscience, was not fully representative of their intent as a large amount of demonstration material was held up by the police. So the community reiterated this morning, but this time […]
The opposition CNRP, seeking to have the official results of the 2013 legislative elections which saw the ruling CPP win by a small margin overturned, still beats the campaign trail, keeping the momentum going ahead of a three day demonstration planned to start on September 15th. The photographs from the 2013 elections can be seen […]
The National Election Committee in Cambodia has confirmed the results of the 2013 legislative elections: 68 seats (22 less compared to the previous elections) for the ruling CPP, 55 (26 more than last time) for the opposition CNRP. That is 3,227,729 votes for the CPP or 48,79% against 2,941,133 votes or 44.45% for the CNRP […]
The opposition CNRP confirms its support base is solid by gathering between 12,000 and 15,000 people at and around ‘Freedom Park’ to protest the Cambodian 2013 legislative elections. The CNRP gained an impressive number of additional seats at the expense of the ruling CPP but claims outright victory after having collected evidence of large-scale fraud. […]
This time the ‘Youth Group for Peace’ managed to deliver its message to (a few of) the armed forces near the Ministry of Defence: words of peace accompanied with a few lotus flowers. A massive deployment of armed forces in the Phnom Penh area ahead of a probably peacefull mass ‘gathering’ organised by the opposition […]
Some 40 citizens and monks gathered yesterday evening at the ‘knotted gun’ sculpture in front of the Chroy Changva bridge to pray for a peacefull resolution (see als HERE and HERE) of the 2013 legislative elections which allegedly saw massive frauds and ahead of a much anticipated/feared mass ‘gathering’ of the opposition CNRP supporters tomorrow […]