Phnom Penh (Cambodia). 04/10 2008: Borei Keila families with HIV/AIDS, who were to receive social housing, had lived under an eviction threat for two years (Photo: John Vink/ Magnum)31-07-2009
By Laurent Le Gouanvic
Ka-set
Despite repeated condemnations from civil society and international community, the list of victims of forced evictions in Cambodia has kept growing. In July, several removal operations took place in Phnom Penh. After the residents of Dey Krohom in central Phnom Penh, whose houses were smashed to dust in January, their neighbours in Group 78, located in the Tonle Bassac area, were forced to leave their homes on July 17th. Similarly, several dozen families in Borei Keila, the majority of which carry HIV/AIDS and require healthcare, were relocated in successive rounds to the outskirts of the Cambodian capital in unsatisfying conditions, according to local NGOs. Again, protests multiplied, whether from the World Bank, donor countries, international media or online networks, while authorities continue to turn a deaf ear.
Déjà-vu
A video, shot in the morning of July 17th in the area known as Group 78 in Phnom Penh, and broadcast on the website of Cambodian human rights organisation Licadho, leaves an impression of déjà-vu: the same dusk bluish light, the same noises of tearing down corrugated iron, the same images of dozens of young workers in red shirts and equipped with pickaxes and bars as during the eviction on January 24th of Dey Krohom residents. But this time, no cries or violence: most of the approximately sixty families of Group 78 resigned themselves to leave and dismantled themselves their wood and metal houses, before security forces and hired workers intervened. The previous day, according to Licadho, they had ended up accepting a compensation of 8,000 dollars, supposed to allow them to find new housing. In the morning of July 17th 2009, human rights activists who were present reported that only a few resisting families had not taken down their houses. After a few hours of negotiations, they yielded as well, for an ultimate compensation of 20,000 dollars, Licadho specified, except for one family who allegedly refused to leave until the end and therefore saw their house be torn down against their will.
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Déjà-vu
A video, shot in the morning of July 17th in the area known as Group 78 in Phnom Penh, and broadcast on the website of Cambodian human rights organisation Licadho, leaves an impression of déjà-vu: the same dusk bluish light, the same noises of tearing down corrugated iron, the same images of dozens of young workers in red shirts and equipped with pickaxes and bars as during the eviction on January 24th of Dey Krohom residents. But this time, no cries or violence: most of the approximately sixty families of Group 78 resigned themselves to leave and dismantled themselves their wood and metal houses, before security forces and hired workers intervened. The previous day, according to Licadho, they had ended up accepting a compensation of 8,000 dollars, supposed to allow them to find new housing. In the morning of July 17th 2009, human rights activists who were present reported that only a few resisting families had not taken down their houses. After a few hours of negotiations, they yielded as well, for an ultimate compensation of 20,000 dollars, Licadho specified, except for one family who allegedly refused to leave until the end and therefore saw their house be torn down against their will.
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13 comments:
This is a government of evils.
Democratic Kampuchea Pol Pot Khmer Rouge Regime had committed:
Tortures
Executions
Massacres
Atrocities
Crimes Against Humanity
Starvations
Overwork to Death
Slavery
Rapes
Human Abuses
Assault and Battery
Cambodian People's Party Hun Sen Khmer Rouge Regime had committed:
Assassinations
Assassinate Journalists
Assassinate Political Opponents
Murders
Killings
Extrajudicial Execution
Grenade Attack
Terrorism
Drive by Shooting
Tortures
Intimidations
Death Threats
Threatening
Human Abductions
Human Rights Abuses
Human Trafficking
Drugs Trafficking
Under Age Child Sex
Corruptions
Bribery
Illegal Mass Evictions
Illegal Land Grabbing
Illegal Firearms
Illegal Logging
Illegal Deforestation
Illegally use of remote detonation on Sokha Helicopter, while Hok Lundy and others military official on board.
Illegally Sold State Properties
Illegally Remove Parliamentary Immunity of Parliament Members
Plunder National Resources
Acid Attacks
Turn Cambodia into a Lawless Country
Oppression
Injustice
Steal Votes
Bring Foreigners from Veitnam to vote in Cambodia for Cambodian People's Party.
Abuse the Court as a tools for CPP to send political opponents and journalists to jail.
Abuse of Power
Abuse the Laws
Abuse the National Election Committee
Abuse the National Assembly
Violate the Laws
Violate the Constitution
Violate the Paris Accords
Impunity
Under Cambodian People's Party Hun Sen Khmer Rouge Regime, no criminals that has been committed all of these crimes above within Hun Sen Khmer Rouge government have ever been brought to justice.
Where is that timid guy from the Cambodia Legal Defend who said their group only helping the poor? Are those cowards just to help the evicted families filling out on a piece of cheap paper?
3:16AM you Bravest man in Cambodia why don't you come out to face the Strongest man your self?
Even UN afraid of him, boy!
I see the pictures of future revolutionaries!
Will they republican?
Who they are is not the case. The main case is whoever can get rid of this corrupted government are very welcomed and praised.
To supporters of
(Cambodian People's Party
Hun Sen Death Squad
Khmer Rouge Regime).
Please do me a favor, don't ever tell anyone that you are Khmer, because you make Khmer peoples look bad.
I used to lived this kind of condition back in '70 no running water, electricity, shoe, bike, not even toy, toothbrush and etc. 8 of us eat one bowl of soup with rice that it. Afternoon and evening. Our breakfast would be FRUIT only no ice cream, no soda, no cereal, no milk, no rice soup not even bread. ONLY WATER.
Nowaday, nothing change folk even 30 years has gone. Majority of us wake up sunrise until sunset nothing but just work, work, work, 7 days week. From rice field, selling, hunting, even sell ourselves.
Furthermore, not even education, no tv, no cellphone, no library, and no internet. This is how our life in Srok Khmer, government not given any penny at all. JUST WORK, EAT, SLEEP AND DIE. You die You die and now get out get out get out and we rich, rich, and rich.
Now I'm in the land of freedom.
Where all the money goes? more diamonds and sex exploration.
The huge money from land grabbing goes to some ex-khmer rouge wives which their husbands belong to the CPP members. They do everything in their power to buy sets and sets of diamonds for their wives. Those ladies never had any diamonds before. So they wanted more diamonds to compete with their friends. In other hand, the young pretty karaoke dancer girls are the targets of their husbands. In order to have sex with those girls because they never had sex with pretty girls,and they ask their wives to bring those girls for them . They do not ask their male servants to do this extra dirty duty because they're afraid of getting caught with the journalists.
(Source: Big talk at Asia markets around the world)
8:26 PM EXACTLY, CPP (CORRUPTED POLITIC PEOPLE) SHOW THE WORLD.
Shhhhhh....this is our trapezoidal (not rectangular) strategy to eradicate poverty...we are young democracy, give us time to make our reform startegy work...perhaps in three more decades, you all and the donors will see some effectiveness of our strategy...at the moment, we at least guarrantee that poverty will be moved out from prime lands to make way for lucrative commercial developments.
This is one of President Obama's favorite phrase: "let's be clear : The CPP (Corrupted People Party) members spend big money from grabbing land to buy diamonds for their ugly wives,for example: 1 set of diamonds costs $70,000US. If we multiply 100 sets by $70,000 = $7,000,000 US. And if one of their husbands has sex with 1 pretty girl from karaoke DVD costs at least $100 US. Then we multiply 100 girls with $100= $10,000US + 100 dresses."
Hey 3:52 AM boy!
Showing our faces to your Strongest Man is not that important because we all know that he is an educated leader. Our voice is very important and our voice must be heard to the world.
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