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Every Word Will Be Heard…
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 Boeung kak Lake community fired up the photocopy machines and demonstrated yet again in front of the Municipality building with cardboard signs carrying copies of the legal documents they have in their possession. Later they went to the Ministry of Interior to file a complaint.
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1 from 2012 for 2013
Not sure this was my best, but that was my 2012… CAMBODIA. Phnom Bat, Oudong (Kandal). 5/01/2012: Spilled rice grains at the relocation site for 120 families evicted from Borei Keila. The Phanimex company provided 25kg of rice to those permitted to stay.
2013 here we come.
PEACE…
Extended version here…
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Sandy? Obama? Meanwhile in Phnom Penh…
In the Boeung Kak Lake and Borei Keila saga, Tim Sakmony and Yorm Bopha were denied bail this morning at the Appeals Court. Tim Sakmony, who was arrested because she had demonstrated after having had her house destroyed during the Borei Keila eviction, was refused bail because she had no proper house! Both communities showed support by demonstrating in front of a barricade set up to block access to the Court during the proceedings.This is a follow-up post on the ‘Quest for Land’ story which is available as an iApp on iTunes. -
World Habitat Day (belated)…
Communities threatened by an eviction gathered in front of the Cambodian National Assembly to celebrate U.N. World Habitat Day and to submit a petition requesting Cambodia be an ‘Eviction Free Zone’. U.N. World Habitat Day is held on the first monday of October, but Mam Sonando’s verdict was due that day. And there are only so many people which can be mobilised in Phnom Penh. So today was just as good a day… About 500 people showed up, which in the current situation is quite a lot.
This is a follow-up post on the ‘Quest for Land’ story which is available as an iApp on iTunes.
CAMBODIA. Phnom Penh. 8/10/2012: Communities threatened by eviction demonstrate in front of the Cambodian National Assembly for a ‘Cambodia Free Eviction Zone’ during a belated UN World Habitat Day.
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Jailbreak Blues…
With ever more inventive props, the Boeung Kak Lake community</a> today carried a locked jail around during their demonstration at the Ministry of Justice and the Royal Palace to request the liberation of their fellows Yorm Bopha and Tim Sakmony, imprisoned at Prey Sar for their land rights activism.
This is a follow-up post on the ‘Quest for Land’ story which is available as an iApp on iTunes.
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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 Sen. So they trickled through one by one instead and met with a representative of the municipality. I don’t know yet what was said…
This is a follow-up post on the ‘Quest for Land’ story which is available as an iApp on iTunes.
CAMBODIA. Phnom Penh. 2/10/2012: Boeung Kak Lake community representative throwing lotus flower petals on police when being prevented by a police road block to go to the Municipality to ask about progress regarding the outlining of the 12,44Ha for an on site development promised by Prime Minister Hun Sen.
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Long interview about ‘Quest for Land’ in Geoffrey Hiller’s ‘Verve Photo‘…
CAMBODIA. Phnom Penh. 06/01/2000: People from Kompong Leng village (Kompong Chnang province) protesting in front of National Assembly because they were evicted from their land.
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Now they are blogged..
They were never published on the weblog until now… I think…
The ‘Boeung Kak Lake’ eviction story, starting in 2008 on my website was updated with quite a few new pictures lately. You’ll find them towards the end of the (long) series.
CAMBODIA. Phnom Penh. 30/12/2010: The remains of a house destroyed during the eviction of Boeung Kak Lake.
CAMBODIA. Phnom Penh. 24/05/2012: Demonstration in front of the Phnom Penh Municipal Court of Boeung Kak Lake residents supporting their 13 fellows arrested on May 22nd.
CAMBODIA. Phnom Penh. 21/05/2012: Members from the evicted Borei Keila community joining Boeung Kak Lake residents demonstrating again in front of the Phnom Penh Municipality about the delimitation of the land allotted to them for an on-site development next to the Shukaku Inc. concession which filled the Boeung Kak Lake.
CAMBODIA. Phnom Penh. 16/09/2011: Inhabitants eat under a sign reading: ‘No house, no life’ and ‘I’d rather die to protect my house’. They were awaiting the eviction of Boeung Kak Lake residents excluded from the 12.44ha granted by Prime Minister Hun Sen to some 750 families for on-site relocation.
And a reminder: ‘Quest for Land’, 11 years of land issues in Cambodia for the iPad is available on iTunes… Here is the Youtube teaser…
