photos: CEN
Photo: CEN
Photo: CEN
25 March 2011
Free Press Magazine Online
Translated from Khmer by Soch
Free Press Magazine Online
Translated from Khmer by Soch
At least one protester was arrested by the cops and three others passed out from the cops’ violence which took place when about 100 Boeung Kak residents were waiting the outcome of their request for 15-hectare of land to perform their own development in place. The city hall is supposed to provide an answer to this request on this Fraiday.
Mrs. Ly Mom, a representative of Boeung Kak residents, told reporters that numerous resident representatives were forced into police trucks, but other residents attempted to pull them back out. However, Kong Chantha, a representative of the residents, was arrested and taken to the Phnom Penh police station, but she was later brought back by a UN OHCHR car.
Regarding this issue, Am Sam Ath, an official for the Licadho human rights group, who was conducting his investigation at the incident location, declared that the police violence against peaceful protesters is a human rights violation against people who live under a democratic regime.
Boeung Kak residents have protested on many occasions already following the government’s decision to give away 133-hectare of Boeung Kak area to the Shukaku Inc. for a 99-year lease. The Shukaku Inc. belongs the CPP tycoon-senator Lao Meng Khin.
2 comments:
That is a pullshit cops under the order of stupid & corruption government
Frankly only expats give a toss about this forced eviction from an area that is a rat infested stink hole, frequented by squatters and dirty expats only here for one thing.
Locals that I know are keen to see how the government improves the site, and I must admit that I am too; many other areas in the city have been vastly improved in the past five years with more greenery and improved roads/pavements.
I will not condone violence from the police in any country, but a lot of these reports are dramatised beyond recognition from real events.
If this area is redeveloped AND includes some form of lake/park area, it will be a vast improvement from the excrement/plastic bag filled mosquito pit that is Boeung Kak "Lake"
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