Tuesday, 05 June 2012
Khouth Sophak Chakrya and Shane Worrell
Phnom Penh Post
Former Borei
Keila residents were bussed to a polling station in Phnom Penh on
Sunday. The bus was reportedly arranged by supporters of the Cambodian
People’s Party. Photograph: Nicolas Axelrod/Phnom Penh Post
Critism of the Cambodian People’s Party has been overt in recent months
as those from Boeung Kak lake and Borei Keila have taken to the streets
to vent their frustration and anger at their housing situations.
But
an equivalent backlash at the polls was nowhere to be found on Sunday,
and both communities – like most other parts of the country – remain
under CPP control after the nation’s commune elections.
Despite
this, some residents in Boeung Kak and Borei Keila are still expecting
change – because the government has promised it, Boeung Kak lake
resident Doung Kea told the Post yesterday.
“We are waiting for
authorities to give us a resolution about our land dispute, because they
claimed they would after . . . commune elections,” he said.
Doung
Kea, like others, is still waiting for a land title at Boeung Kak and
expects the government to demarcate the 12.44 hectares of land it
promised residents in August.
“Through the CPP’s policy, it has
proclaimed that if their party won, they would make an effort to resolve
all these people’s issues.”
It might not be so straightforward,
though, according to Keo Sakal, the commune chief who presides over
Borei Keila in Prampi Makara district’s Veal Vong commune.
After
winning on Sunday, she asked the CPP’s secretariat-general Say Chhum to
urge Phnom Penh governor Kep Chuktema and Suy Sophan, the owner of
development firm Phan Imex, to provide solutions for those who have
slept under stairwells and near rubbish since their eviction on January
3, she said yesterday.
“But the Borei Keila issue is not my jurisdiction, so I am afraid of giving a solution for them,” she said.
Am Sam Ath, senior technical adviser for Licadho, said yesterday many residents from Boeung Kak and Borei Keila were expecting authorities to find solutions.
“I
hope [the government] will resolve the . . . land dispute problems. If
not, it could affect voters in the national election next year,” he
said.
Chhay Thirith, chief of Srah Chak commune, where Boeung Kak is situated, declined to comment yesterday.
To contact the reporters on this story: Khouth Sophak Chakrya at sophakchakrya.khouth@phnompenhpost.com
Shane Worrell at shane.worrell@phnompenhpost.com
3 comments:
I feel dumbed strucked, these people, if they where smart they won't go there the first place. I've lost respect for these people. after many chances of real integrity and justice. they choose the party line well thats just outright disgrace. their children are crying they have no land entitlements the first thing they do is re vote in tyranny, like the four dumb idiots whos heads where brought-out beaten in the koh kong hotel. then there are idiots who still because of the border issue thinking cpp would fix the matter. well any form of elected govenment will have a contingency Operational-plannning regarding border issues, not just the useless corrupted Criminals Poofter Party of Cambodia. and how is cpp gonna solve border issue with thai? the military is still in a dumbed down mood, even the viets have Upgraded their T-55/Type-59 tanks. while hun sens generals/elites pour millions of money to karaoke whores, and thousands of hotels and casinos.
dcpp guy
You voice is your vote! You vote for Cpp to rob your children'd future like they robbed Bang kak residents,Boriey Kiela residents is not enough for you, then go ahead vote for the PIGS ! That's what Cpp stand for;Corrupted Pigs Party....or maybe we can change its name to; Criminal people party,they all K.R left over to finish off you the dumb people that vote for them,go ahead vote for them to shoot your families
Khmer
Now I feel better and sleep well since I come to know that the victims of the oppression are supporting the oppressors.
Keep doing these dumbnest acts and you all will be fine. Next time when I see the pictures of you all crying, it won't affect my feeling.
Psychology 101: A wife who has been abused by her husband tends to swallow the pain and stay on with him. Even the neigbors show the way to liberate herself. Because the husband may go after her if she left him.
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