Legal eviction? Eviction in Spean Chhes, Sihanoukville (Photo: Licadho)
No coercion? More than 1000 military cops move in to evict the Sambok Chap squatters (AFP)By Heng Reaksmey, VOA Khmer
Phnom Penh
15 February 2008
Cambodian government Thursday denied the accusations in a recent report by the Amnesty International (AI) that the government practiced massive forced evictions.
In a two-page statement, the Cambodian Ministry of Foreign Affairs rejected AI’s report saying that it is an attempt to distort the situation in Cambodia.
The rights organization was quoted as saying the authority used equipments to destroy homes, leading to people's homelessness. Many residents in Phnom Penh have been displaced and gathered to live in the outskirt of the city in the name of development.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs claimed that there are no such things as illegal displacement and coercion.
In a two-page statement, the Cambodian Ministry of Foreign Affairs rejected AI’s report saying that it is an attempt to distort the situation in Cambodia.
The rights organization was quoted as saying the authority used equipments to destroy homes, leading to people's homelessness. Many residents in Phnom Penh have been displaced and gathered to live in the outskirt of the city in the name of development.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs claimed that there are no such things as illegal displacement and coercion.
1 comment:
I really don't understand why the Phnom Penh denied the accusations in a recent deltailed report by the AI. I can assure the Phnom Penh will not be vindicated from the facts. Why is it so uneasy for the Phnom Penh to accept their irresponsibility, when the world is presenting the facts. Instead they ought to take this matter seriously in the consideration.
"If Cambodia keeps looking back, she can solely recognize own dark shadowns. And if she looks forward, sometimes her dark shadowns appear before her. Her people mut not deceive her into the darkness, instead, dutifully guide her into the light. Show her that you are really patriotic."
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