A small group of about 30 members of the Boeung Kak Lake community was prevented by the police to leave their neighbourhood to go and ask someone in charge at the municipality building if any progess was made about the outlining of the 12,44 Ha for an on site development promised by Prime Minister Hun […]
Some 300 supporters of Mam Sonando, the 70 year old Beehive Radio owner and Journalist, demonstrated in front of road blocks set up at the roads leading to the Phnom Penh Municipal Court while waiting for the verdict in a trial about a so-called ‘secessionist’ movement. Mam Sonando was sentenced by the Phnom Penh Municipal […]
Last year I started thinking about a project called ‘On the Edge’, about people who need just a little incident in their life to be dragged into the spiral of destitution and poverty. I worked on it for a while and put it aside, waiting for a better mindset. This sunday I tried to get […]
The Boeung Kak Lake and Borei Keila communities tried to put pressure on the donor countries which were having their annual meeting with the Cambodian Government. Basically they were saying: ‘Link the amount of money you are promising to improvements on the Human Rights situation’… In 2011 about 1/3 of the annual budget came from […]
Boeung Kak Lake and Borei Keila held a cursing ceremony in front of the Phnom Penh Municipal Court, requesting the release of Yorm Bopha and Tim Sakhmony, detained at Prey Sar prison. This is a follow-up post on the ‘Quest for Land‘ story which is available as an iApp on iTunes.
One night only. But even with bad weather Kep is a breather…
Is it the organisation? Is it the heat? Is it a lack of time? Is it fear? Is it authorities’ harassment? Or is it a lack of interest? International World Peace Day assembled barely 200 people at the Preah Ang Dong Kheo pagoda in front of the Royal Palace, listening to speeches by representatives of […]
Some 50 residents from Boeung Kak Lake, avoiding the road block set up by the police in their area, went by tuk-tuk to the proximity of the European Union and the World Bank to deliver yet another petition. This is a follow-up post on the ‘Quest for Land‘ story which is available as an iApp […]