Media Alert: Boeung Kak lake residents homes demolished
Tensions ran high at Boeung Kak lake today, 16 September 2011, when excavators arrived to demolish residents homes. A demonstration by residents was broken up by riot police and construction vehicles, which went on to demolish the homes. While the homes were being destroyed tensions ran high between police and community members, in which at least one man was injured. Please find attached five photographs taken by the Cambodian Center of Human Rights ("CCHR") of the events. All of the pictures taken by CCHR can be found at our facebook page, which can be accessed by clicking here.
Captions for the attached photos are:
1. Excavators begin demolishing the villagers' homes
2. An excavator demolishes a house
3. A monk admonishes riot police
4. Houses are demolished as police look on
5. An excavator truck flattens a house. Background: the Council of Ministers building
For more information please contact Ou Virak, CCHR President, via telephone on +855 12 404 051 or via email at ouvirak@cchrcambodia.org
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