Friday, December 07, 2007
Everyday.com.kh
Translated from Khmer by Socheata
A panic took place, forcing people to flee out of their houses in the middle of the night, when several tens of meters of landslide took away riverbanks on Koh Norea village, Niroth commune, Meanchey district, Phnom Penh city, in the evening of 05 December. During the landslide, two houses fell into the water, but the incident did not cause accident to anyone. However, the homeowners were very horrified and they started to move their belongings to the national road nearby. The riverbank landslide progresses close to the house of Lu Lay Sreng, the vice-prime minister and minister of rural development, and it causes panic among Lu Lay Sreng’s family members. Villagers blamed the landslide on the erosion of the riverbank stemming from a company contracted by Sok Kong (one of Hun Sen’s cronies) to dredge sand from the riverbed. Right now, Lu Lay Sreng’s house is still threatened as the landslide now approaches his fence. The landslide woke up several high-ranking government officials, and brought them to the spot of the incident. Among these officials were Lim Kean Hor, the minister of water resources and meteorology, and Nhim Vanda, the first deputy chairman of the national committee for disaster management.
6 comments:
Mother natures speaks for the poor. The poor has enough tragic events in their lives. Now its the corrupted leaders' turn.
not long ago ( 6 months?)decho hun sen has promosed to stop the river sand dredging on complaint from Lu Lay Sreng.
If there is a responsible press in cambodia, they should replay this speech of the Decho.
At least that would make us laugh a little bit in this grim period.
There goes another stupid westerner's theory. No sand ain't gonna keep any land from sliding.
The best solution to this issue will be a protective wall made of large rocks and stones or simply concrete wall protection just like we did in the Bassac river by the royal palace. I'll preferred the latter.
Lu Lay Sreng,
The best way to deal with this mess, Sue Sok Kong company and the government who let Sok Kong dredge the sand from the river. It means You need to sue Hun Sen. Whoever causes the land slide as Sok Kong did, he needs to pay for the damage. May be Hun Sen wants to make the Bassac river wider.
Oh, Mr. Lu. You have a villa in Cambodia because you can't live and work in the US. In the US No one called you by title, Ek OukDom.
Nope, no one is not responsible for natural disasters. Therefore, you can't suit anyone.
Even in the bible it says "not to trust the man who builds houses on the sand." It moves when it's wet, and it moves when its dry.
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