The supporters from the Borei Keila (see here) and Boeung Kak Lake (see here and here) communities gathered again in front of the police barricade set up on the access road to the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on the second day (see the first day here on my Tumbl’r page) of the trial of Yorm […]
The trial of Tim Sakmony (from the Borei Keila community) and Yorm Bopha (from the Boeung Kak Lake community) took place at the Phnom penh Municipal Court this afternoon, with some 250 supporters facing the police at one end of the blocked road. Both accused spent more than 114 days in pre-detention and were declared […]
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 the concrete and disorder, leaving […]
It was a long wait for the many supporters but Chan Soveth, a Human Rights investigator with the NGO ADHOC, walked out of the Phnom Penh Municipal Court as a free man. He was accused of having helped people in relation to a so-called ‘secessionist movement’ in Kratie’s Broma village last May, when a 16-year […]
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 the concrete and disorder, leaving […]
Two Boeung Kak Lake communities (here and here), one already evicted and the other under threat of an eviction, the Borei Keila community (here) and representatives of the Pochentong community requested a meeting with the World Bank related to its re-engagement with the governement after the bank suspended its lendings in 2011 in view of […]
This is the start of a new series, initiated here and continued here… December is a good month for this: crisp light for the next weeks… 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 […]
About 400 human Rights activists (see also here for what happened on International Human Rights Day) gathered in front of the National Assembly to deliver a petition of over 40,000 signatures, collected by Amnesty International, regarding land issues and Human Rights. But it was done with a twist: the participants did it ‘Gangnam’ style and […]