BOREI KEILA: RESIDENTS' VIOLENCE OR POLICE VIOLENCE? An excavator demolishes a home during a forced eviction at the Borei Keila complex in Phnom Penh January 3, 2012. Local human rights group Licadho said that police officers and residents were injured in a face-off when hundreds of armed authorities tried to evict families from their homes in a long running dispute with a local real estate firm well-connected with the government. The firm, Phanimex, plans to convert the residential area into a commercial one. REUTERS/Samrang Pring
04 Jan 2012
By Ly Meng Hour
Radio France Internationale
Translated from Khmer by Soy
More photos here.
On Wednesday 04 Jan, an investigating judge from the Phnom Penh municipal court had decided to jail 8 Borei Keila villagers who protested against the demolition by the authority of houses belonging to 300 families on 03 Jan 2012. The eight were charged with willful use of violence and with opposition against public government officials. The violent raid and the arrest of the residents by the cops have been condemned by human rights organizations and opposition parties, the latter also call on the government to provide peaceful resolution to this chronic land dispute problem.
After they were arrested by the cops during a clash between the residents and the cops in Borei Keila on 03 Jan, eight men and women from Borei Keila – aged between 17 and 53 – were all sent to jail by the court on 04 Jan.
A Phnom Penh court judge decided to charge the residents, who demonstrated to protect their homes, of using violence and of opposition to public government officials and, in the afternoon of 04 Jan, the court decided to send the 8 residents to jail in Prey Sar prison.
04 Jan 2012
By Ly Meng Hour
Radio France Internationale
Translated from Khmer by Soy
More photos here.
On Wednesday 04 Jan, an investigating judge from the Phnom Penh municipal court had decided to jail 8 Borei Keila villagers who protested against the demolition by the authority of houses belonging to 300 families on 03 Jan 2012. The eight were charged with willful use of violence and with opposition against public government officials. The violent raid and the arrest of the residents by the cops have been condemned by human rights organizations and opposition parties, the latter also call on the government to provide peaceful resolution to this chronic land dispute problem.
After they were arrested by the cops during a clash between the residents and the cops in Borei Keila on 03 Jan, eight men and women from Borei Keila – aged between 17 and 53 – were all sent to jail by the court on 04 Jan.
A Phnom Penh court judge decided to charge the residents, who demonstrated to protect their homes, of using violence and of opposition to public government officials and, in the afternoon of 04 Jan, the court decided to send the 8 residents to jail in Prey Sar prison.
2 comments:
When is all this going to stop?! It is so heartbreaking to see innocent people getting brutalized and stripped of all they have. This is just ridiculous and sad! No accountability from the government but then again can we expect anymore from an uneducated, greedy pig who's selfishness has intensified more and more each minute!
I think this is a tipping point for CPP, the more they hurt people the more people will rise up against them.
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