Srey Sothea receiving a medal from Hun Sen (Photo: 7NG Group website)
Unidentified man (most likely Srey Sothea's son) standing next to Hing Bun Heang, Hun Sen's bodyguards chief (Photo: 7NG Group website)View from the other side of Dey Krohom
By John Vink
Originally Posted at http://johnvink.com/news/2008/01/11/view-from-the-other-side/
Let me introduce you to Okhna (honorary title) SREY Sothea. Born in 1957 from ordinary peasants, he is the head of 7NG company who will build these two towers on the Dey Krohom land.
Photo: John Vink/Magnum
Some 25 km from the center of Phnom Penh, and next to his garment factory employing 1900 people, he built houses (3mx6m) for the people living in the Dey Krohom slum and for other soon to be evicted slum dwellers. An office of Credits for Poor Resident Development Organization (CPRD), which is also run by 7NG is located nearby. If you want to know what Mr. Srey Sothea’s intentions are you might want to check his website, although a lot of it is still under construction…
By John Vink
Originally Posted at http://johnvink.com/news/2008/01/11/view-from-the-other-side/
Let me introduce you to Okhna (honorary title) SREY Sothea. Born in 1957 from ordinary peasants, he is the head of 7NG company who will build these two towers on the Dey Krohom land.
Photo: John Vink/MagnumSome 25 km from the center of Phnom Penh, and next to his garment factory employing 1900 people, he built houses (3mx6m) for the people living in the Dey Krohom slum and for other soon to be evicted slum dwellers. An office of Credits for Poor Resident Development Organization (CPRD), which is also run by 7NG is located nearby. If you want to know what Mr. Srey Sothea’s intentions are you might want to check his website, although a lot of it is still under construction…
People at Dey Krohom were evicted and robbed violently in day light without properly and fairly compensated. What does this CPRD mean for them as homeless people? It wouldn’t be free residence for them. Isn’t it?
ReplyDeleteThis guy, Srey Sothea’s intension is to being wealthier by robbing poor people when reimbursement was not being offered in a reasonably manner.
បើ អាសំដាចម៍ ហ៊ុន សែន មិនអោយដៃ, ស្មានតែ អាឧកញ្ញា ស្រី សុធា ហ៊ាន ប្រើប្រាស់ហឹង្សា ដេញប្រជាពលរដ្ឋខ្មែរចឹង អី?
ReplyDeleteអាសំដាចម៍ ហ៊ុន សែន, វានៅពីក្រោយ រឿងដេញប្រជាពលរដ្ឋខ្មែរ នៅតំបន់ដីក្រហម!!
why can he build his place where no people live, why the government evict people for land for him..how much did the hunxen and his communist gangster get paid from him, and where did he get the money from, did he pay tax???? or should we change the law or should we fight against the yuon slave CPP, and get the land back for our innocents?
ReplyDeleteWelcome to Phnom Penh City
ReplyDeleteManaging DirectorCambodia, Phnom Penh City is a very Safe and Fast Development Country in Asia. Look, we have been noted that, it’s highly development on Real Estate – Business center, Residential, Infrastructures, High Sky Building, etc., 7NG Group worked very hard in this Division too. We are well known Company in this country and we got highly Support from huge amount of Cambodian People by Our Successful Projects, especially the Third Project Call Borei Santepheap III are in processing.
It located at the East of Phnom Penh City, by special strategy from 7NG allow the customers pay monthly in 10years to get a piece of land(5m x 20m) for residential.
For our 3rd Project we not only need local customers, we also warmly welcome for foreign investment with our Project. We Plan to Build New Infrastructures, Business Center, High Sky building, Market, Factory Zone, Tourism Area, Park, and so on. We also can consult and support Foreign Investment who interest in Investment in Our Country for any Development Projects.
Confidence Investment.
Srey Chanthou
Managing Director
What his son wrote in their website.
ON PEOPLE TEAR AND BLOOD , FUKC YOU.
ReplyDeleteThat’s blood money property. No one interested in buying it. People drop blood and sweat and the predator sucks it up.
ReplyDeleteNOW I know another Khmer blood SUCKER .. I will MAKE a big poster put in by BACKYARD for a PAINTBALL SHOOTING TARGET .. must be fun .. HE HE HE ..
ReplyDeleteDear Mr. Srey,
ReplyDeleteKeep building your project as you see fit.
I will pay you a visit when I get there.
But first, I need to stop at a Sokimex gas stations to get some gasoline........ so I can burn your fucking building
down. I hope you understand.
Sincerely Yours,
Ow ah Hine
Please don’t burn down the building. He came from a poor family, too. He has bended over to Chimpanzee regime very hard to come to this far, but promise to suck Khmer blood till the end of the existence.
ReplyDeleteNo mercy for other poor!
ng7 your brain is stupid always stupid. you give peopoe in dey krahorm pain without any reason. If you want to evict people should give fair compensate.
ReplyDeleteSrey Chanthoo
ReplyDeleteYou are very thoo, aren't you ? why are you toeng with the poor people grabbing theitr lands without paying them fair maket value ? at least $200,000 per family ?
This is the problem when a bumpkin like you and Hun Sen got power. They forgot their roots.
Only ligthning can and will strike you like ah hok lundy.
The face of this guty reminds me of Gen Srey Doek. they look like brothers.
ReplyDeleteFrom a Khmer Krohom killing khmer people during pol pot to evivting people from Dey Krohom ?
Doesn't it sound awful and eerie ?
Don't cry poor people of Dey Kra Horm. CPP government has the mandate to do anything that you can think of......some of you and many Khmer voted for them not long ago.......have you forgot it already? Just accept it and live with it. It was your rightful choice to be misery till the end.
ReplyDeleteNothing is perfect in this world. Do you think the mighty America was built on happiness? Hell no. Do some research to the inter-continental railroad tracks to the West and the "manifest destiny?" How many Native American Indian tribes are extinct now before America gets to what it is today?
ReplyDeleteIt's called capitalism. Don't you know how capitalism works? If you live in the West, especially America, you should already know what capitalism is and how it works, buddy. The world is not all rainbows and sunshine like you all imagine.
If you really are genuinely caring about the poor people, why don't you do something more than just going online to do your righteous talking? or am you only caring with your mouth and not your action. Talk is cheap, eh. Action speaks louder.
by-passer
ANIMAL.
ReplyDeletetalk is the worst enemy to dictator.
ReplyDelete7:28
ReplyDeleteFYI, the CeePeePee vote for themselves. Get your fucking mind out of the gutter. If you don't know by now, I suggest you post your ignorant comments elsewhere...... dumb fuck.
7:56,
Since you passing-by, let me hitch a ride with you.
That is true, if we were in the 1800's. This is 2,000 and 9... dip shit!
The fucking slavery days are over, if you haven't notice. Hint..... our new President? I notice that you and Huynh Sen have something in common though.... you both have a prehistoric mentality.
I assumed that you name yourself Passer-by, because
you're a passive person..... therefore, you writes and run.Stil evolving huh? Maybe, you should STOP sometimes and see what the future is really is.
Frankly, I am quite disturbed and dismayed by all ignorant comments made in this particular blog. These ignorant people know just enough english to come here and use all the foul languages with less sense of responsibility for what they are writing.
ReplyDeleteI agree that evicting people is by no means acceptable. Prior to harsh actions by the 7NG backed by the government, well planned and civilized methods could have been explored and used to avoid all unnecessary heartachs that bombard these slum dwellers.
A method of making clear understandings to the mind of these confused and potential evictees could have been used. A method such as gathering them for interviews and taking all questions they may have.
And during these processes the live interviews can be publically recorded from various angles with video cameras for evidence.
To shorten the time used in these processes multiple dozens of families, at one time, can be interviewed and allowed for all questionings they may have regarding their move and relocation from their unsightly slum that devalues the pride of a developing nation of Cambodia.
The slum has definitely portrayed a terrible image to the remnant of the Khmer Empire whose pride and glory was once so great in the ancient time of the Khmer long life history.
The slum looks unsightly bad and especially when it is located in or around the heart of the capital city.
I visit "his website" and I read the Home Feature article. I then click on the 7 NG Real Estate blog and see that it is truly impressive based on its vision of building the new Cambodia.
My profound, genuine and best wishes to this 7NG Khmer company. But also to this same company my petition is please be very sensitive to the needs and the burden of the poor as they go through rough times day by day.
Please do your best to assist them. And only then that your vision of "Building Better Cambodia" would become so much more meaningful to all Khmers today and the next five thousand Khmer generations to come.
Thank you and God bless you with great wisdom. My best regards.
Qm
People who have earned blood moneys without considering to the suffering from others will pay a high price very soon. All the moneys they have earned cannot even burn their death body and to pay all the damages to other at all. They shouldn't make that kind moneys. they will sleep with nightmare and fears. Areak Prey
ReplyDeleteI just read sdach korn by Ros Chatrabott, in the preface Hun Sen wrote that Kaorn was the forst leader in the world history to haveinvented the idea of liberal democracy and abolition of slavery, well before France and otehr western countries.
ReplyDeleteWell, Hun Sen got it wrong. it was chrsitianity that got it first or among the first, even Buddha.
Thanks alot KI. I relly appreciated of your effort. Now I obviouly know who the owner of 7NG.
ReplyDeleteYou can curse you can scream but the most effective way to bring down a giant are;
ReplyDelete1- Boycott i.e. Don’t buy their products since that came from blood of the poor
2- Sanction-Don't do business with them and tell those who are dealing with those animals (They already change from human to beast) to terminate their contracts
3- Media…Let the world know what is going on in Cambodia…sooner or later their foreign bank accounts will freeze, their traveling will be restricted and by the way, the criminal court in Belgium has a warrant for them
Do bad, get rich and do good get homeless! That's the fact!
ReplyDeleteVietcong said: They must Invade Cambodia.
"If they win, they control Cambodia.
If they lose they still get rich and nothing to lose..."
A chom kuort Srey Thea. A choy maray...tov than norouk tov.
ReplyDeleteMotherfucker
Are you one of those foolished and despicable individuals who would rather tear down their own kind as they become prosperous?
ReplyDeleteAnalize your own criticism and be rational in your bitterness. If you think your bitterness/anger has a solid and truthful foundation then write it out specifically in a civilized way so that it may be understood, agreed upon and supported.
Foolishness equals to lowliness from which every decent & sensible person can opt to distance themselves.
Be a reasonable, rational and sensible citizen. Bitter heart hardly knows what joy is but bitterness and animosity. Narrow minded can be rejected and cast away.
Qm
6:31AM,
ReplyDeleteYou forget one more project to add to your prvious ones. It is the most important project of all. It's the to build to build the prison compond buildings to put all of human leeches of the Khmer society, including you, too.
is he brother to em sam an? look alike. Anyway good job!!! development is always producing two different sides, tear and victory. No idea who is wrong or who is right. there must be wrong and the must be right at the same time.
ReplyDeletechet pikdoy
What kind a Company is this and his website is still under construction? How the fuck anybody can find out about this guy Srey Sothea's intention? Everything about this guy is still under construction!
ReplyDeleteTell you what! Is this what you called your good intention to make people cry and to deny them the basic need of human!
Damn bastard!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Okhnach Srey Sothea born in 1957 from ordinary peasants but quickly forgot where he was come from.
ReplyDeletePoor became rich and Pleach Kom Noert Doerm quickly.
That makes no different from Ah Kwack.
let don't let him get away like those hunxen khmer rouge! whenyou see him walk stone him everyone!
ReplyDeleteQm,
ReplyDeleteDon't compared the uncivilize to the civilize world. A third world country like Cambodia and it's leaders doesn't feel obligated to resolved a dispute through verbal communications... instead, there Method of Operandi is..... violence. They don't sit at a Starbuck's and discuss their differences.
What television crews and a dwellers who dares to do live coverage on the subjected matters? It's easier to be civilized when you're not directly at the forefront and at the absentee of your motherland. Isn't it?
You said the slum looks unsightly bad and in the heart of
the city? From my recollection, the slum was there first before the newer renovation of homes, stores and building were built. Now that everything is a little modernize.... these dweller is an eyesore.
"If you have the same dogs in your house, you'll end up with the same fleas."
let only own the building parts not the lands, soon hunxen will say it is illegal sell like ke kimyan and evict people against, let not so into these fake situation plz spend your money wisely!
ReplyDeleteDown with 7NG! You took Khmer life, you took Khmer blood, you make Khmer cry, and we wish you deepest nether world, and never come back as Khmer again. You parasite bitch!
ReplyDelete6:22am, correct. Srey Sothea is Hun Sen's man. If Hun Sen did not give the go ahead he wouldn't dare to evict the Dey Krohorm peole in a violent eviction like that. Now Hun Sen is very quiet, only Heng Samrin say something. but Heng Samrin might be in trouble with Hun Sen if he push hard against Srey Sothea.
ReplyDeleteI'm almost running out of words to spit out in my comments; nonetheless, let me spit out the rest: If this oknha thing is kind enough to build those skyscrapers for the poor Khmers to live, why doesn't he build them first and then chase these poor people to live in them?
ReplyDeleteIt's good to see good people pitch in to help relief Khmer people from hardship instead of depending on the government to do it alone.
ReplyDeleteMay God blesses all of our Okna.
That's what happend when a Butterfly had forgoten his Worm background.
ReplyDelete.....a Proleterian is becoming a Bourgeois Capitalist.
Qm,
ReplyDeleteyour short speudonyme from now on stand for Quim monkey.
Srey Sothea and Srey Doek, General of border military regional division are related. No wonder why he got all the money to build sky scrapers with blood/sweat money.
ReplyDelete10:37, that is a good question! It sounded good in the paper. In reality, just another broken promise. It's almost the same tactic as the Khmer Rouge. Only different is, the real Khmer Rouge doesn't tear down your house.
ReplyDeleteKind of make you wondered, whose ruthless whom?
To: Qm
ReplyDeleteYou seem to look down and have hatred for these dirt poor Cambodian people very much! What is your fucken problem bitch! Tell me that you have never been poor all your life? It seems that now you have it made in a new country and you are better off than your parent and now it is time for you to turn your back on your past? ahhahahhaha
You are a fucken hypocrite yourself bastard! Do you think all these dirt poor Cambodian people want to be born as poor people? Due to circumstance and mismanagement of AH HUN SEN regime that is why they are poor and in fact majority of Cambodian people are still poor!
As long as a fool likes you including AH HUN SEN and his cronies continue to look down and take advantage of the poor and Cambodia will remain a class struggle and class warfare between the rich and the poor!
I thought POL POT did his best to eliminate class struggle and class warfare between the rich and the poor! And now in 2009, you and AH HUN SEN are promoting class struggle and class warfare between the rich and the poor? You know too damn well that the poor will always out number the rich and the outcome is obvious as you have seen during the Pol Pot regime!
As far as I am concerned there should be no class struggle or class warfare and Cambodian government must play a major role in helping those Cambodian people who are very unfortunate and poor for those who are better off and rich and encourage them to contribute back to Cambodian society and give them proper recognition for their achievement!
Please understand dirt poor Cambodian people are only human and no human are alike!
Correction:
ReplyDeleteKind of make you wondered, who is more ruthless than whom?
Hi, Qm,
ReplyDeletedon't waste your time to find the word quim in a dictionary; it's slang meaning "the vulva/vagina".
There are still option left for the company name
ReplyDelete7NG (7 No Good ) to become 7SG ( 7 Soo Good). Build the sky tower and give part of it to the previous owner and keep some for yourself make it fair, no more eye sore then you can call you save Phnom Penh City. I don't think you want to do it, just keep all to yourself then you earn the name 7NG company, I want to just list one of the 7 No Good for you, Greed... leave the other
6NG for others to say.
Hey, 6:39AM,
ReplyDeleteIt was me who was running out of words to spit out, and why the hell your comment is much shorter than mine?
11:00 bravo!
ReplyDeleteQm (Queer Man) can't tolerate this forum due to the fact that too many people used explicit language to express their view? Perhaps, a more suitable site for QM to go next is.... Gai'a.
The way I see it, just one less FUCKING hypocrites that I have to deal with. Fucking Brady bunch!
K'main Hear sombhor
11:14
ReplyDeleteLMFAO!!!!! Too funny!
K'main Hear Sombhor
8:44 AM
ReplyDeleteYou are nothing more than a low-life dog that cannot articulate so all you can bark is curse words. Bark some more, doggie. Maybe, I'll give you a bone if you bark enough. Ah chkair. hahaha
On etiquete of language , perhaps, Qm needs to check with Som Arch Hun Xen first before lecturing others. did you listen to his language used to swear at kem Sokha at odor meanchey last week ? full of ah, vear....
ReplyDeleteWow a PM, a leader of a country, no wonder all people , young and old talk and act like him.
All of you are nothing more than internet losers. If you use your time spent online to do something that is ACTUALLY worthy for Cambodia, you can build homes for those Deykrohom residents. All your toughness is bogus. Go do something constructive for the country and stop being a fucking internet warrior.
ReplyDelete12:04 PM
ReplyDeleteThose filthy mouth fuckers are all from outside Cambodia, stupid deerfucker lol. I am from US and that's how kids educated in the West talk. Don't you know us? internet gangsters who will shit our pants faster than diarrhea if real shit goes down. lol
Anyone know what "7NG" stands for?
ReplyDeleteIf I have to guess?
7 Nuisance Guy?
7 Nguyen?
7 Not Guilty?
7 Negligent Guy?
7 Necglecting Guy?
7 Northern Gang?
7 No Guidance?
I give up!
12:01
ReplyDeleteBhour ine ch'kair? Ah hien ch'kair ch'good!
Goan Ah Kvack! Ah tulk thiap! Ah choy m'rai! LOL
Phnom Penh needs development.
ReplyDelete7NG is a company that will create more jobs in the field of construction. I hate to see Dey Krahom residents being forced out but most of these people are living in poverty and most aren't doing anything positive for Phnom Penh other than living in the slums.
I think it's a very good ideal to develop all the slums in city and move the people in these areas to the out-skirts of the city. When potential foreign investors visits PP, the first thing they see are the slums. This creates an image to them that Cambodians are living in the past, in poverty, and thus not a good country for investment.
Land evictions may look bad but it is all for the better of Cambodia and her people. People don't want slum/slum dwellers, they want development!
You refugees dont know shit about Cambodia today. U better shut your yaps and pick apples over there.
ReplyDeleteKhmer Local.
cambodia today is a part of vietnam .
ReplyDeleteCambodian Okna is 100% Tevada.
ReplyDeleteFuck all of you guy in this forum.You want to be khmer president,but you don't know how to make Cambodia country growing up and good looking.You fucking just want Cambodia like pol pot regime looking.
ReplyDeletePersonal and business history would tell a lot about ethic of that individual and business. Sad but truth that there are a lot of them out there and you have to fight for your rights especially in Cambodia.
ReplyDeleteWhen you eat to much potato, the carbohydrate can make you hallucinate. Thus, don't listen to Ah Potato diggers from oversea.
ReplyDeleteoH MAN!!!!!
ReplyDeleteAH KWACK CAN YOU DO IT BETTER?
At lease give the kid good cloths to make his father look like the head of million US $ company!!!!
Who own the 7NG if not that guy may lightning strike them!!!!!
Whatch out ah Kwack, lightnings are looking for you!!!
hey, if they can bring positive changes to cambodia, more power to them. god bless the sothea family and businesses.
ReplyDeleteI like those towers better than the stupid Gold towers.
ReplyDeleteTo 12:05PM
ReplyDeleteShut the fuck up bitch! What do you know about building house in Cambodia? If you are not a fucken loser yourself and I should see you at Dey Krahorm already helping those dirt poor Cambodian people by now!
It is you who think that some of the people in here never been to Cambodia and doing nothing! I can only speak for myself and I have been all over Cambodia and even to Vietnam and I had seen everything first hand! In fact I just came back from Cambodia and I will not tell you mother fucker anything because I don't want to attract unwanted attention from you or anybody!
By the way, you want people in here to build houses for these dirt poor Cambodian? And why don't you tell where do you find the land to build the house? Do you have a land to speak off?
Build a house is the easy part just find the land! Now it is up to you to find the land around Dey Khahorm then I will contact you to build the house! You can't find a better deal than this! I will send my real estate agents to see you in person! By the way, do you know why I want to chose Dey Krahorm because these Cambodian people want to live next to the market, school, find works, transportation…
I just hope AH HUN SEN doesn't evict these dirt poor again! But who know because AH HUN SEN always target poor and defenseless Cambodian people!
Well, what can say to you guys? I become famous all of a sudden. Am I a thorn in your neck or what?
ReplyDeleteComment for me from 10:09 AM is fair, sort of, if compared with these other comments.
From 10:41AM I got myself a name - Quim monkey.
From 11:00AM this friend is really drunk and "hear teuk moit", after calling me a few names he'd use a professional word "please" to wrap up his discourse. "Yap main". I love my people, the poor in particular, and I'm a fair man, alright?
From 11:14AM sounds like a decent woman and I'm please with her honest warning. Sank you.
From 11:55AM this friend gives me a title (Queer Man), but how about (QueensMan)? Continue to deal with me because I'll still be around awhile, :) if you don't mind.
Qm
2:14
ReplyDeletePhnom Penh don't need any more buildings or skyscrapper. The freaking city is infested with some unrecognizable human being that don't look anything like Khmer people. Look like an ant farm.
Only a few Khmer's get left behind. The real one either got evicted or driven away to the country side.
I guess you can dubbed them 'A foreigners in their own country."
10:57pm, beats standing on the side walk of PP all days begging and soliciting every Vietnamese that pass you by.
I ain't mad at you; if that's what it take to feed your stupid self.
K'main Hear Sombhor
.......... and I will continued to use a foul language that I am most comfortable with when corresponding with you.....Qm.
ReplyDeleteGlad you can stick around!