Boeung Kak Lake community entangled in a 4-year long land issue (see here, here and here) went to the Council of Ministers to check on a hypothetical response to the petition they delivered earlier this month. 17 other communities were supposed to join but I couldn’t spot any. (sorry only one photograph today…)
Every statement, every word will be heard by the Boeung Kak Lake community entangled in a 4-year struggle to keep their land (see here, here and here): Kep Chuktema, Governor of Phnom Penh, stated on television that those left without a land title at Boeung Kak have no right to claim rightfull ownership. So the […]
A first rehearsal for the ceremonies which will take place for the cremation of King Norodom Sihanouk (see here for the tribute paid by the public to the King after his death last October) was organised today in front of the Royal Palace and the nearly completed 1.2 million dollar funeral pyre building. Kong Sam […]
The Boeung Kak Lake demonstrations (see here, here and here) are beginning to look like flashmobs. 7 to 8 tuk-tuk’s crammed with Boeung Kak residents show up at their target, deploy banners, distribute copies of petitions, discuss with the traffic police and/or the ‘undercover’ policemen (unmasked by their beeping and squeeking icom), guards, people supposedly […]
The ongoing story on Kep-by-the-Sea (see here) was updated with a series of recent photographs.
A more Southern part of street 19 than last time… Phnom Penh is a crowded city. A real organic city: growing, evolving, adapting spontaneously with its inhabitants. Unlike many developed countries, and still for now, most Cambodians have their roots in a rural environment, subject to the laws of mother nature. The migrants coming to […]
Boeung Kak Lake (see here ,here and here) has its pride and didn’t take it that the head of the prison where their fellow activist Yorm Bopha is jailed would treat them as being ‘brainless’, so they went to demonstrate in front of the Ministry of Interior. The smiling policemen kept everyone on the sidewalk. […]
Today: back to street 15… Phnom Penh is a crowded city. A real organic city: growing, evolving, adapting spontaneously with its inhabitants. Unlike many developed countries, and still for now, most Cambodians have their roots in a rural environment, subject to the laws of mother nature. The migrants coming to the capital adapt quickly to […]