Children overlook the Dey Krahorm slum, where residents face an eviction deadline Tuesday. Photo by: Heng ChivoanDey Krahorm residents face eviction deadline
Monday, 29 December 2008
Written by Chhay Channyda
The Phnom Penh Post
District authorities order residents to leave their homes by Tuesday or suffer forced removal, while community leaders pledge to resist
RESIDENTS of Dey Krahorm have been slapped with a final eviction notice and warned to leave by Tuesday or face forced removal, with local community leaders pledging to resist the order.
The site is at the centre of a months-long row between residents and the local developer that plans to clear the once heavily-populated site.
The order by district authorities would affect up to 130 mostly poor families who have refused to leave the riverside district.
"The district office would like to inform the remaining people that they will be removed from their houses on December 30," read a statement issued Thursday and signed by Chamkarmon district Governor Lo Yuy.
Developer 7NG has not publicised its plans for the site, located on prime land near the city centre.
The "last notice" comes after the Phnom Penh Municipality authorised district officials to take action against Dey Krahorm residents who refuse to vacate, wrote Lo Yuy in the notice.
He said "1,374 families have already moved to a new relocation site, but only 91 have remained". The notice added that 7NG compensated residents with four-metre-by-10-metre houses in Dangkor district's Damnak Trayoeng village on the outskirts of Phnom Penh.
But angry residents have rejected the compensation, saying the new location is far from Phnom Penh's business centre and has no access to infrastructure.
Chan Vichet, who represents the residents, called the notice "unacceptable" and accused authorities of understating the number that remain. "We still have around 130 families at Dey Krahorm."
He said Phnom Penh Deputy Governor Mann Chhoeun informed him of the order by phone Wednesday, but that residents would resist expulsion. "We have prepared ourselves against possible eviction," he said.
"The company offered between US$17,000 and $18,000, but we want $50,000 [for new houses]," he said.
Srey Sothea, 7NG company chairman, said Sunday that the eviction order came after thousands of Dey Krahorm residents relocated to Damnak Trayoeng village. He said they would not be given titles to the new land until the resettlement was complete.
RESIDENTS of Dey Krahorm have been slapped with a final eviction notice and warned to leave by Tuesday or face forced removal, with local community leaders pledging to resist the order.
The site is at the centre of a months-long row between residents and the local developer that plans to clear the once heavily-populated site.
The order by district authorities would affect up to 130 mostly poor families who have refused to leave the riverside district.
"The district office would like to inform the remaining people that they will be removed from their houses on December 30," read a statement issued Thursday and signed by Chamkarmon district Governor Lo Yuy.
Developer 7NG has not publicised its plans for the site, located on prime land near the city centre.
The "last notice" comes after the Phnom Penh Municipality authorised district officials to take action against Dey Krahorm residents who refuse to vacate, wrote Lo Yuy in the notice.
He said "1,374 families have already moved to a new relocation site, but only 91 have remained". The notice added that 7NG compensated residents with four-metre-by-10-metre houses in Dangkor district's Damnak Trayoeng village on the outskirts of Phnom Penh.
But angry residents have rejected the compensation, saying the new location is far from Phnom Penh's business centre and has no access to infrastructure.
Chan Vichet, who represents the residents, called the notice "unacceptable" and accused authorities of understating the number that remain. "We still have around 130 families at Dey Krahorm."
He said Phnom Penh Deputy Governor Mann Chhoeun informed him of the order by phone Wednesday, but that residents would resist expulsion. "We have prepared ourselves against possible eviction," he said.
"The company offered between US$17,000 and $18,000, but we want $50,000 [for new houses]," he said.
Srey Sothea, 7NG company chairman, said Sunday that the eviction order came after thousands of Dey Krahorm residents relocated to Damnak Trayoeng village. He said they would not be given titles to the new land until the resettlement was complete.
3 comments:
only blood and tears drop on the heart of earth where the poor are being forced to remove. SHit eater 7NG is only good at using armed force, showing off high-class cars. 30 December 2008 is another day of big removal of the year. Year of review of 2008: Land-grabbing, eviction by dirt-poor ass-sucker.
you are right, when country developed like other countries? and live without tearing
That's not fair!!!
Government was cheating his people.
Company offered the money to the resident, but goverment kept it all. Instead, he just provided a small, flat house 4m by 10m. Otherwise, the amount of money which had offered is not equivalent to house price. (House price maybe lower than offered price.)
And the most important for the resident was the title of the new house. They did not get any offical documents that proof this new house belong to them.
That's it!!! Hun Xen still keep them in particular area. In the future it's easy to move them all to other far-place coz the resident people did not have any evidence of ownership.
Hun Sen said "He wanted to help by keeping them into anarchism forever."
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