Phnom Penh (Cambodia). 24/01/2009: Police aiming a straight-shot tear gas gun during the final eviction at Dey Krohom. (Photo: John Vink/ Magnum)
Phnom Penh (Cambodia). 24/01/2009: Mechanical shovel destroying private property during the final eviction at Dey Krohom. (Photo: John Vink/ Magnum)
Phnom Penh (Cambodia). 24/01/2009: Family crying the loss of their belongings during the final eviction at Dey Krohom. (Photo: John Vink/ Magnum)25-01-2009
By Ros Dina
Ka-set in English
The threat of eviction had been lurking around them since 2006. The struggle of dozens of families who still clung onto their houses in Dey Krohom, in the central Tonle Bassac district of Phnom Penh, is one of the longest in the distressing two decade-old history of land matters in Cambodia. From one ultimatum to the next, the looming final offensive was expected to be carried out sooner or later. It happened in the early hours of the morning, on Saturday January 24th. Nobody imagined the eviction would be so well-organised but what is more, so violent. And the 7NG company, who was granted the land as part of a concession to build a residential tower block and a shopping mall, went all out in the process.
Methodical destruction
An army of more than 600 young men arrived at the scene shortly before dawn, accompanied by policemen sporting riot shields and batons, themselves followed by representatives of the authorities. The concept of task division was rigorously applied in this eviction operation. Split into several groups and told apart by the colour of their tee-shirt (red, blue, yellow, green, black and white), they cleared the site away with method. When the go-ahead was given at 6am, some erected in record time a barricade around the site which had been cordoned off prior to the offensive, while others were allocated the task of demolishing whole areas of the village. Some three hours later, the zone was entirely devastated, not a single thing was left to stand, not even trees, razed to the ground in the process.
Cracking down on every dwelling, house by house, like locusts swarming on crops, dozens of workers relentlessly applied themselves to knocking everything down with sledge-hammers and axes, leaving nothing behind but annihilation. The first action they set out to do was to wreck the houses of those who still formed pockets of resistance. There, diggers and bulldozers did the job without leaving enough time for residents to save their belongings. Even motorcycles parked inside homes were crushed by machines. Not an ounce of pity. Houses crumbled down at once in a crashing din of smashed objects, dishes, materials. A young woman, in an ultimate attempt to save a few things, fell with her own house, ravaged by a bulldozer. She came out of the rubble alive, but with several injuries.
Use of tear gas
Determined not to be bothered by residents showing protest, the one-off removers, covered by a large scale police cordon, tear-gassed the area and its inhabitants. As for those who still opposed to leaving their home, it is with fire extinguishers that workers attacked, filling houses and drowning their occupiers with white chemical solution until they came out. There again, fire extinguishers were used to tackle any fires started by inhabitants.
An old woman was sat outside on a raised board bed, lamenting the situation. “They shot teargas at us. It was impossible to breathe and it made us cry. They did this to flush us out! I don't know where I am going to live with my grand-children. Here, we only paid USD100 per month, we managed.” Her daughter, joining her, says with anger: “If I had known that they'd be capable of doing that, we would never have voted for them in the elections, in my family!”
Demolitions carried out with rage
One of the first houses to be targeted by workers was that of a young woman who obstinately refused to leave her house, racked by sobs and calling for help in harrowing cries. She was forced out by the day-workers hired for the occasion and taken away. Every single eviction gave way to violent altercations, and even direct confrontations between dwellers and workers. The latter showed excessive rage and anger in the way they proceeded, and even zeal, which sparked off the astonishment and daze of many. Every group was steered by a leader virulently exhorting workers to keep the same pace and not let the situation affect them. None of them agreed to reveal the amount of the salary they received for this task.
In one of the dwellings, a man tried to set himself ablaze and one of his relatives, a woman, threatened to throw a brick at the depredatory workers. They were interrupted in their hammering and axing task by their leader calling them to keep going with the destruction. Behind them, police officials wearing uniforms also encouraged them: “Go! Destroy! We can't do it ourselves, there are too many foreign journalists and photographers!”
When the operations ended, injured people reportedly included four residents – among whom two suffered serious injuries - and ten workers. The police proceeded to several arrests. As she watched her house being wrecked and despite her imploring for some more time to move all their belongings, a mother collapsed and was taken to hospital. “We used to run a small grocery shop, we had many things to take out of there. They just wouldn't listen. I even tried to make the district chief change his mind, but he retorted: 'We allowed you several days to move out, so why didn't you?' We lost half of our personal property...” her husband said, appalled by the situation.
Inhabitants left in shock
Slightly further away, a resident, wearing his police uniform, eyes sore from crying and speaking in a choked voice, refused to helplessly witness the demolition of his home. “You're alone against them, you can't do anything! Stay calm!”, his friends told him. He arrived there in 1993 and remembers, like others, promises made by prime Minister Hun Sen back then, that the inhabitants of that neighbourhood could one day become the true owners of their piece of land...
A neighbour, whose house was faced with the same fate, could not stop expressing her astonishment in front of the violence deployed. A dweller at Dey Krohom since 1987, she did not show any more interest than other families - those officially recognised by the company 7NG - in the latter's offer of resettlement in the Chom Chao area on the outskirts of Phnom Penh, or in the USD20,000 cash compensation per family (last offer made by 7NG), which was thought to be insufficient. “They show more brutality and meanness than during Pol Pot's regime! But today, Cambodia is part of the ASEAN and has its place on the international scene, they cannot act like this! The government robs inhabitants to serve the company's own interest!” A young teacher, standing beside her, adds: “They see the poor as slaves. They decide on our life and death!”
Journalists and observers mistreated
No one was allowed to enter the zone, and those who tried hard to make their way through were severely reprimanded, shoved away in a more or less strong manner. The general trend was to keep observers away. Fire hoses were deliberately pointed at photographers.
“This is not good for you, Barangs [expatriates], to stay here, it's dangerous!”, the lawyer for the 7NG company insistingly advised. A Barang replied to him, not without irony: “But there are policemen here, and they are here to take care of security, aren't they?”. For his part, Phay Siphan, the spokesman for the Council of Ministers, enquired about observers' situation: “Were you treated well?”
Authorities trying to make a good impression
His back turned to the scene, Mann Chhoeun, the deputy governor of Phnom Penh, who arrived at the scene at about 8 o'clock, tried to be reassuring. “We are taking inhabitants to the resettlement site [Damnak Trah Yeung village, Chom Chao district, about 12 miles west of the capital], it is necessary to respect what is written here!”, he explained, waving a report made by the municipality on Dey Krohom, the back of which states the offer made by 7NG to inhabitants: a 4m x 12m house built by 7NG in the Damnak Trah Yeung village, or the sum of USD15,000, each offer being topped up with 770,000 riels (USD192,50) and 30 kilos worth of rice and dehydrated noodle packs.
In the light of this little reminder, the deputy governor defends the morning intervention: “We are not throwing them out into the street, we have a house for them!” The company 7NG acknowledged the existence of 91 families when the site actually houses 150 today, as a few came last minute to add themselves up to the lot. The company will examine each dossier on a case-by-case basis and it is down to them to decide whether they will do something for them”, Mann Chhoeun detailed, pointing out that 8 out 91 families accepted the offer of 7NG in the past few days
Authorities and 7NG promote the resettlement site
“Those who did not jump on 7NG's last offer [which settled the amount of compensations at USD20,000, an offer which is not valid any more today, according to 7NG manager] claim between USD50,000 and USD120,000, and the highest claim was made by a family. But negotiations have come to an end...” The deputy governor then painted the idyllic picture of the resettlement site, “connected to the drinking water network”, where dwellers will be able to benefit from “a 700 million riel [ USD175,000] credit fund set up for them to obtain loans”. “And also, the authorities are in charge of building a school there”.
7NG manager Srey Chanthou, on site, wearing a tee-shirt with his company's logo and a material mask, presented a similar line of argument. “More than 1,300 families in Dey Krohom agreed to go and settle there, why do others cause problems? They will have nice accommodation!...” The representative then added up to the list of assets of the Damnak Trah Yeung village by mentioning the existence of a market and a factory.
As Human rights and housing rights organisations set up a series of meetings since Saturday morning's events, some twenty evicted families found refuge at the headquarters of Cambodian Human rights NGO (LICADHO).
Who's next?
Residents of the Building, living right next to the Dey Krohom area, did not miss a second of the operations. They also said they were shocked by the deployment of violence. The net is tightening around them. All the squats and makeshift villages which used to surround them have now disappeared, replaced by tall buildings. They know it: they are now next on the list of evictions in Phnom Penh.
Methodical destruction
An army of more than 600 young men arrived at the scene shortly before dawn, accompanied by policemen sporting riot shields and batons, themselves followed by representatives of the authorities. The concept of task division was rigorously applied in this eviction operation. Split into several groups and told apart by the colour of their tee-shirt (red, blue, yellow, green, black and white), they cleared the site away with method. When the go-ahead was given at 6am, some erected in record time a barricade around the site which had been cordoned off prior to the offensive, while others were allocated the task of demolishing whole areas of the village. Some three hours later, the zone was entirely devastated, not a single thing was left to stand, not even trees, razed to the ground in the process.
Cracking down on every dwelling, house by house, like locusts swarming on crops, dozens of workers relentlessly applied themselves to knocking everything down with sledge-hammers and axes, leaving nothing behind but annihilation. The first action they set out to do was to wreck the houses of those who still formed pockets of resistance. There, diggers and bulldozers did the job without leaving enough time for residents to save their belongings. Even motorcycles parked inside homes were crushed by machines. Not an ounce of pity. Houses crumbled down at once in a crashing din of smashed objects, dishes, materials. A young woman, in an ultimate attempt to save a few things, fell with her own house, ravaged by a bulldozer. She came out of the rubble alive, but with several injuries.
Use of tear gas
Determined not to be bothered by residents showing protest, the one-off removers, covered by a large scale police cordon, tear-gassed the area and its inhabitants. As for those who still opposed to leaving their home, it is with fire extinguishers that workers attacked, filling houses and drowning their occupiers with white chemical solution until they came out. There again, fire extinguishers were used to tackle any fires started by inhabitants.
An old woman was sat outside on a raised board bed, lamenting the situation. “They shot teargas at us. It was impossible to breathe and it made us cry. They did this to flush us out! I don't know where I am going to live with my grand-children. Here, we only paid USD100 per month, we managed.” Her daughter, joining her, says with anger: “If I had known that they'd be capable of doing that, we would never have voted for them in the elections, in my family!”
Demolitions carried out with rage
One of the first houses to be targeted by workers was that of a young woman who obstinately refused to leave her house, racked by sobs and calling for help in harrowing cries. She was forced out by the day-workers hired for the occasion and taken away. Every single eviction gave way to violent altercations, and even direct confrontations between dwellers and workers. The latter showed excessive rage and anger in the way they proceeded, and even zeal, which sparked off the astonishment and daze of many. Every group was steered by a leader virulently exhorting workers to keep the same pace and not let the situation affect them. None of them agreed to reveal the amount of the salary they received for this task.
In one of the dwellings, a man tried to set himself ablaze and one of his relatives, a woman, threatened to throw a brick at the depredatory workers. They were interrupted in their hammering and axing task by their leader calling them to keep going with the destruction. Behind them, police officials wearing uniforms also encouraged them: “Go! Destroy! We can't do it ourselves, there are too many foreign journalists and photographers!”
When the operations ended, injured people reportedly included four residents – among whom two suffered serious injuries - and ten workers. The police proceeded to several arrests. As she watched her house being wrecked and despite her imploring for some more time to move all their belongings, a mother collapsed and was taken to hospital. “We used to run a small grocery shop, we had many things to take out of there. They just wouldn't listen. I even tried to make the district chief change his mind, but he retorted: 'We allowed you several days to move out, so why didn't you?' We lost half of our personal property...” her husband said, appalled by the situation.
Inhabitants left in shock
Slightly further away, a resident, wearing his police uniform, eyes sore from crying and speaking in a choked voice, refused to helplessly witness the demolition of his home. “You're alone against them, you can't do anything! Stay calm!”, his friends told him. He arrived there in 1993 and remembers, like others, promises made by prime Minister Hun Sen back then, that the inhabitants of that neighbourhood could one day become the true owners of their piece of land...
A neighbour, whose house was faced with the same fate, could not stop expressing her astonishment in front of the violence deployed. A dweller at Dey Krohom since 1987, she did not show any more interest than other families - those officially recognised by the company 7NG - in the latter's offer of resettlement in the Chom Chao area on the outskirts of Phnom Penh, or in the USD20,000 cash compensation per family (last offer made by 7NG), which was thought to be insufficient. “They show more brutality and meanness than during Pol Pot's regime! But today, Cambodia is part of the ASEAN and has its place on the international scene, they cannot act like this! The government robs inhabitants to serve the company's own interest!” A young teacher, standing beside her, adds: “They see the poor as slaves. They decide on our life and death!”
Journalists and observers mistreated
No one was allowed to enter the zone, and those who tried hard to make their way through were severely reprimanded, shoved away in a more or less strong manner. The general trend was to keep observers away. Fire hoses were deliberately pointed at photographers.
“This is not good for you, Barangs [expatriates], to stay here, it's dangerous!”, the lawyer for the 7NG company insistingly advised. A Barang replied to him, not without irony: “But there are policemen here, and they are here to take care of security, aren't they?”. For his part, Phay Siphan, the spokesman for the Council of Ministers, enquired about observers' situation: “Were you treated well?”
Authorities trying to make a good impression
His back turned to the scene, Mann Chhoeun, the deputy governor of Phnom Penh, who arrived at the scene at about 8 o'clock, tried to be reassuring. “We are taking inhabitants to the resettlement site [Damnak Trah Yeung village, Chom Chao district, about 12 miles west of the capital], it is necessary to respect what is written here!”, he explained, waving a report made by the municipality on Dey Krohom, the back of which states the offer made by 7NG to inhabitants: a 4m x 12m house built by 7NG in the Damnak Trah Yeung village, or the sum of USD15,000, each offer being topped up with 770,000 riels (USD192,50) and 30 kilos worth of rice and dehydrated noodle packs.
In the light of this little reminder, the deputy governor defends the morning intervention: “We are not throwing them out into the street, we have a house for them!” The company 7NG acknowledged the existence of 91 families when the site actually houses 150 today, as a few came last minute to add themselves up to the lot. The company will examine each dossier on a case-by-case basis and it is down to them to decide whether they will do something for them”, Mann Chhoeun detailed, pointing out that 8 out 91 families accepted the offer of 7NG in the past few days
Authorities and 7NG promote the resettlement site
“Those who did not jump on 7NG's last offer [which settled the amount of compensations at USD20,000, an offer which is not valid any more today, according to 7NG manager] claim between USD50,000 and USD120,000, and the highest claim was made by a family. But negotiations have come to an end...” The deputy governor then painted the idyllic picture of the resettlement site, “connected to the drinking water network”, where dwellers will be able to benefit from “a 700 million riel [ USD175,000] credit fund set up for them to obtain loans”. “And also, the authorities are in charge of building a school there”.
7NG manager Srey Chanthou, on site, wearing a tee-shirt with his company's logo and a material mask, presented a similar line of argument. “More than 1,300 families in Dey Krohom agreed to go and settle there, why do others cause problems? They will have nice accommodation!...” The representative then added up to the list of assets of the Damnak Trah Yeung village by mentioning the existence of a market and a factory.
As Human rights and housing rights organisations set up a series of meetings since Saturday morning's events, some twenty evicted families found refuge at the headquarters of Cambodian Human rights NGO (LICADHO).
Who's next?
Residents of the Building, living right next to the Dey Krohom area, did not miss a second of the operations. They also said they were shocked by the deployment of violence. The net is tightening around them. All the squats and makeshift villages which used to surround them have now disappeared, replaced by tall buildings. They know it: they are now next on the list of evictions in Phnom Penh.
32 comments:
This is not at war but in a peacefull country. The authority has inflicted people to suffer worst than Israel has done to Gazar. Therefore I appeal to all NGO who have earned a lot of moneys from foreign countries to look after the well being of Cambodians to put together a strong complain to UN and to all foreign embassies in Cambodia to condemn to the 7NG company to the strongest penalty and will put all sanctions against all directors and those involved in this destruction to all countries. Areak Prey
Khmers rouges killed and empty half of Cambodians during killing filed then again through K5 to free more land for yuon migrants but apparently it is not enough. These khmer rouges and yuon vietcong need to suffer and kill more innocent people to free more land
If it wasn't for the 22nd century with news media and human right international. I m sure it would worst then pol pot under this hun sen regime/ hanoi puppet
Ban Ki-moon
please help!!!
In TV ApSARA,I didn`t see an image like this,why??????????????????????
apsara is hun sen TV propagandas to charm people in French, not to tell bad things on hun sen gov. I found their propagandas childish and so stupid though or may be cpp think Khmer in French dont have a brain to think
HUN SEN ..ARE YOUN DOG .. HE HURT KHMER TO PLEASE YOUN ..
hun sen , will finish our khmer nation .. and Khmer will become Youn with ah HUN SEN help..
montrer de photos choquante je dit oui pour ne pas oublier que la bêtise humaine existe il n'y a pas de guerre propre les américains on payées un lourd tribus pour que nous puissions avoir se qu'on a aujourd'hui merci du fond du coeur a tout ceux qui on donnés leur vie pour que je vive
The lawlessness is outrageously uncontrollable in Cambodia. Another sadest news is that the local villages/townships/cities giving hardship to anyone who wanted to get marry. In Maung Russey, a village chief and cronies extort money (>200 USD)during wedding ceremonies asking for money, otherwise, problems will come knocking on the door.
There were, also, censorship of playing music that can be heard to the neighbor. Again, the chief states cannot be done without permission.
Will there be peace in Cambodia? Has the government any decency and respect for human right, and believe in commoness to work toward peace and prosperity? How much more can anyone in Cambodia endure the oppressive force under the current head?
Ah Jkea HUN SEN .. IT look like that in your whole life you are enjoy to hurt khmer people so much .
Remember what come around will go around , One day Khmer people will detroy you and your family with god help ..
We all Khmer should form a freedom fighter to free our country from HUN SEN goverment( MURDER goverment)
No, we (Khmer) should hunt down Ah Potato Diggers and send them back to India where they came from.
But how to do?this Murder government has been brougth back by UN 10.23.91.agreement.
Who are these:
Sihanouk
Ieng sary
Polpot
Kiev samphan
Duch
Hun sen
Chea sim
Heng sam rin
Le Ductho
http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=sVLTFmWX4VE
becareful...the word freedom means terrorist right now, let not to put our fine patroits fall into the same jail like every other who wanted to fight for freedom in srok khmer. Million march protest will change these kinds of illegal act. if all of khmer have a guts to protest against the goverment the world will see us that we wanted change or tell hunxen to step down if the did do anything about these, and let the world watch how hunxen react, is he going to crash the poeple or he will try to help to resolve the problem. Let make hunxen step down by calling million march protest against hunxen and his yuon slave goverment.
we need to stop these illegal act. we don't want more yuon flow into our land...we can stop thai took our preh vihear why can't we stop yuon from taking our land?
WE have to hunt for this BURANY CUNT LICKER 3:35 AM , BAN HIM FROM BUNRANY CUNT FOR GOOD AND SEND THIS DOG BACK TO WHERE ITS COME FROM ( YOUN HANOI)..
We need Cambodia to be developed.
This eviction will create more jobs for contruction workers and it will make Phnom Penh a more attractive city.
Residents at this site were asked to leave many times and they were given a compensation price of $20,000. If they didn't leave the site, forcible evition is the only option by Phnom Penh officials for the residents.
Dey Krahorm is a major eye soar for Phnom Penh and so this action needs to be done!
It's all for a better Phnom Penh. Suffer today, be happy tommorow!
I think a potato digger is much than you a potato head, is it?
Well, at least we leave in a modern city and you live in the slum.
Good Job Hun Sen!!!
Well done Achmaa!!!
Wonderful work Achkout!!!
Long Live Hun Sen!!!!
It doesn't matter if you are the duck decent like hun sen you are still the duck,look Hun Sen try too hard to be every things and catch up with it neighbor but because of lacking of education background cause him walking backward ,Hun Sen your regime will be destroyed ,you dig the grave for your own,your citizen get more and more upset frustrate a bout your regime so your day are counting down.
7NG nothing more than thug group who make money over Khmer tear. Justice will catch you criminal soon or later.
រាត្រីរនោច (បទពាក្យ១០)
ទេសភាពស្រុកខ្មែរ ក្រោមខែរាត្រីរនោច
ស្រុកទេសហិនហោច ដោយព្រោះជនក្បត់មុសា
ដឹកទាំងងងឹត មិនដឹងទិសដៅឯណា
នេះឬវាសនា កម្ពុជាក្រោយពេលសង្គ្រាម ។
ជម្ងឺនៃរាស្ត្រ ប្រទះនឹងភាពក្រីក្រ
ស្រែកទួញអង្វរ ដល់អស់លោកអ្នកស្រេកឈាម
គេគ្មានអាណិត គ្មានគិតមានតែគម្រាម
ដង្ហោយក្នុងនាម ទាមទាររកសិទ្ធិសេរីភាព ។
វណ្ណៈកម្មករ ពលករនិស្សិតនិងសង្ឃ
ក្រោកឈរទ្រទ្រង់ តែពួកបនក្បត់បង្ក្រាប
ដេញបាញ់ទាំងថ្ងៃ ជាញជ័យនៃពួកថោកទាប
កំហឹងពេញប្រៀប ពុះពោរក្នុងចិត្តកូនខ្មែរ ។
ជីវិតជនពាល ននៀលនៅលើអំណាច
ឫកពារកោងកាច មិនខ្លាចនឹងប្រហារទេ
ទោះសង្ឃទោះស្ត្រី ក៏ពាលមិនរើសមុខដែរ
បង្ក្រាបត្រាតែ ស្ងាត់សូន្យនៅក្នុងដែនដី។
អកុសលផលបុណ្យ រែកពុនធ្ងន់ណាស់កូនខ្មែរ
ស្រែកទួញស្រែកជេរ ក៏គេថ្កើងឫកធ្វើហី
បង្កើតដំណែង ក្នុងពេលរាស្ត្រនៅក្រក្រី
អំណាចក្រឡៃ កែឆ្នៃជិះជាន់រាស្ត្រឯង ។
ថ្ងៃទី ៣០មីនា ១៩៩៩
ស.យ.មករា
At least build the homes move them and give them some capitol to get a new life ,I do not understand what kind of thinking that the khmer rouge prime minister Hun Sen has,What kind of injection from mr.goat face Ho Chiminh to Hun Sen .so why he confuse to harm and hurt Cambodian citizen like that .Hun Sen the curse from Cambodian ppl.will become real ,your one eye will popping up and your car or plane will crash and smash your ignorant peasant 's body like meat ball.
Our mouth eat mud fish and salt
all our curses are accurate.
Hun Sen you deserved the curses.
Are you kidding me? Hun Kwack doesn’t kill Khmers or make the life of Khmers depressing just to please Yuon, but to please his own pocket. If he doesn’t give the green light to 7NG, who would dare evict people off the property. This is no Pol Pot totalitarian regime; it’s an open market society; but Pol Pot’s policy still applies in this case.
Go, go, and go. Who cares far or near. Cambodia still has more vacant land for people to settle and leave the prime locations for Ah Kwack. This is what he can see with his one eye functioning.
No money, no power. Money is everything. That’s another way to control the power through corruption and killing.
Ah Hun Sen go to hell!
pls, 4give4 hun thmill b/cuz he's blind &deaf.
Don't listen to Ah Potato Digger. They created all this problem and try to blame it on someone else.
3:49, you are absolutely right! Khmer-Oversea need to watch out when posting a propoganda against any government official. The United States does not condone this type of act. Please becareful what you post.
The righteous way to do is through people's power.
But, there's not a willing participants whose willing to die for the cause of freedom. Khmer people is traumatize and still hasn't recovered from the aftermath of the Khmer Rouge genocidal. This effects cost the people to divide amongst themselves. They have turn us against one another. When
there is no bond, trust and a lack of patriotism... Cambodia
will never overcome their governments obsticle. They divide and conquer. Nowadays, every Cambodians is for
themselves. I can't blame them when only 75% of the country is a full pledge Cambodian.
Last, tear gas is a less-than lethal weapons use to disperse crowd, but can be lethal when aiming directly at the individual instead of launching it.
Just get rid of ah potato diggers and problem solved.
WE have to hunt for this BURANY CUNT LICKER 12:00 PM , BAN HIM FROM BUNRANY CUNT FOR GOOD AND SEND THIS DOG BACK TO WHERE ITS COME FROM ( YOUN HANOI)..
To all companies out there if you have business relation with 7NG of Cambodia, it is now time to end your business relation with that company, if you are thinking of doing business in Cambodia make 7NG as a company to avoid…Let 7NG die just like the community they erase on Jan 24 2009…
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