This was extremely humbling.
More here…
INDONESIA. Lhoong (Aceh). 10/01/2005: Tsunami aftermath. Site of Saneay (360 inhabitants, 89 survivors) and Utamay (285 inhabitants, 138 survivors) are located 4 hours by boat South of Banda Aceh.
A nightly delivery of timber by a military truck without licence plates in a small street? Soldiers transferring timber from one truck to another? Money exchanging hands? A higher ranking military checking on it all from his Camry?
I am not so sure all this is legal… I am not so sure conservationists would like this.
As could be expected, the new story is about the fate of the people evicted from Dey Krohom one year ago.
All 378 families were dumped again, far from Phnom Penh, hidden from eyesight.
What a nice Xmass story…
CAMBODIA. Oudong (Kandal). 18/12/2009: All the families which were dumped at Damnak Trayoung after the Jan. 2008 Dey Krohom eviction, finally, after one year, were taken to a place, in a rice field 40 km from Phnom Penh, where they will be able to claim ownership for a 4x8m plot.
Went back to Oudong at the relocation site for the 387 families from Damnak Trayoung, ex Dey Krohom evicted. I do have some doubts about this site. At least half of it, the part with the most families, will be flooded during rainy season. There is no drinking water, there are no latrines (there doesn’t even seem to be a place planned for them), there are no job opportunities, there is no reasonable (financially) connection with the capital (40Km, one way…), there is no electricity, there is no health facility (NGO LICADHO is as usual providing health care, be it minimal), there might be a school somewhere in the area (but can it cope with the influx of 387 families?).
Are the authorities THINKING when they relocate people like that? They probably are, but do you really want to know WHAT they are thinking?
CAMBODIA. Oudong (Kandal). 18/12/2009: Construction of a new house. All the families which were dumped at Damnak Trayoung after the Jan. 2008 Dey Krohom eviction, finally, after one year, were taken to a place, in a rice field 40 km from Phnom Penh, where they will be able to claim ownership for a 4x8m plot.
CAMBODIA. Oudong (Kandal). 18/12/2009: All the families which were dumped at Damnak Trayoung after the Jan. 2008 Dey Krohom eviction, finally, after one year, were taken to a place, in a rice field 40 km from Phnom Penh, where they will be able to claim ownership for a 4x8m plot.
CAMBODIA. Oudong (Kandal). 18/12/2009: Land plot demarcation. All the families which were dumped at Damnak Trayoung after the Jan. 2008 Dey Krohom eviction, finally, after one year, were taken to a place, in a rice field 40 km from Phnom Penh, where they will be able to claim ownership for a 4x8m plot.
Last monday all the families from Damnak Trayoung were moved to Oudong, 40Km NW of Phnom Penh. I was not told…
I’m a bit p…d because this eviction somehow is the closure of the Dey Krohom eviction, and I arrived too late to catch the usual chaos.
Anyhow… Those people had nothing. Now they might even have less than nothing (living 40Km from Phnom Penh is not really improving job opportunities). All they have is a promise for something.
CAMBODIA. Oudong (Kandal). 17/12/2009: All the families which were dumped at Damnak Trayoung after the Jan. 2008 Dey Krohom eviction, finally, after one year, were taken to a place, in a rice field 40 km from Phnom Penh, where they will be able to claim ownership for a 4x8m plot. The water comes from a pond.
CAMBODIA. Oudong (Kandal). 17/12/2009: Property demarcations. All the families which were dumped at Damnak Trayoung after the Jan. 2008 Dey Krohom eviction, finally, after one year, were taken to a place, in a rice field 40 km from Phnom Penh, where they will be able to claim ownership for a 4x8m plot. The water comes from a pond.
CAMBODIA. Oudong (Kandal). 17/12/2009: Carrying construction material. All the families which were dumped at Damnak Trayoung after the Jan. 2008 Dey Krohom eviction, finally, after one year, were taken to a place, in a rice field 40 km from Phnom Penh, where they will be able to claim ownership for a 4x8m plot. The water comes from a pond.
CAMBODIA. Oudong (Kandal). 17/12/2009: Water carriers. All the families which were dumped at Damnak Trayoung after the Jan. 2008 Dey Krohom eviction, finally, after one year, were taken to a place, in a rice field 40 km from Phnom Penh, where they will be able to claim ownership for a 4x8m plot. The only available water comes from a nearby pond.
CAMBODIA. Phnom Penh. 16/12/2009: Area at the entrance of Phnom Penh, just before the Japanese bridge, where families were evicted for the sake of the construction of a roundabout.
CAMBODIA. Phnom Penh. 16/12/2009: Area at the entrance of Phnom Penh, just before the Japanese bridge, where families were evicted for the sake of the construction of a roundabout.
CAMBODIA. Phnom Penh. 16/12/2009: Area at the entrance of Phnom Penh, just before the Japanese bridge, where families were evicted for the sake of the construction of a roundabout.
The people who were renting a house in the evicted community of Dey Krahom (story here, multimedia piece called Terre Rouge here) in January 2009, were not entitled compensation in Damnak Trayoung, some 20km South of Phnom Penh. They were just dumped there and have been living in worse conditions than before. Now, finally, one year later, the authorities come up with the possibility for them to be resettled (again). Except that it is in Oudong, North West of Phnom Penh, about 50Km from where they are now… Just a few families left for Oudong on saturday, but I was warned too late and missed the dismantling and packing…
CAMBODIA. Damnak Trayoung (Phnom Penh). 12/12/2009: Meeting of inhabitants, evicted 1 year ago from Dey Krahom, discussing resettlement in Oudong, some 50km from where they were dumped.
CAMBODIA. Damnak Trayoung (Phnom Penh). 12/12/2009: Remains of a shelter abandoned by its inhabitants to go to the new settlement of Oudong.
CAMBODIA. Phnom Penh. 11/12/2009: The Bassac front where a vast community was expelled from in 2000.
See some pictures of that story here…
CAMBODIA. Phnom Penh. 11/12/2009: Construction of a pedestrian bridge to Koh Pich Island development, financed by Canadia Bank with an initial involvement of 7NG company, famous for the violent Dey Krohom eviction. About 100 families living on the island and providing Phnom Penh with vegetables cultivated on the 70 ha of fertile soil were evicted in 2005. They were offered 2,5$/m2 whereas at the time the land was valued at 20 to 24$/m2.
CAMBODIA. Phnom Penh. 11/12/2009: Koh Pich Island development, financed by Canadia Bank with an initial involvement of 7NG company, famous for the violent Dey Krohom eviction. About 100 families living on the island and providing Phnom Penh with vegetables cultivated on the 70 ha of fertile soil were evicted in 2005. They were offered 2,5$/m2 whereas at the time the land was valued at 20 to 24$/m2.