Source: http://www.voxy.co.nz/entertainment/week-tvnz-7/5/46716
Broadcast date: Tuesday 18 May, 7.35pm
On:Unreported World On TVNZ 7 (New Zealand)
On:Unreported World On TVNZ 7 (New Zealand)
Thirty years on from the fall of the Khmer Rouge, and at the same time as Pol Pot's accomplices are being put on trial for war crimes, Cambodia's people are once again being brutally driven from their land.
This time, however, it is capitalism, not communism, that is displacing them, as growing numbers of tourists fuel a property boom that is having devastating results.
In Phnom Penh where land is now worth three times as much as two years ago, Unreported World investigates allegations that the Cambodian authorities are behind a policy of violent evictions of the country's poor from their homes. The inhabitants of the slum district of Dey Krahorm, which is home to 120 families and right next to central Phnom Penh's plush new hotels, embassies and new National Assembly, are being forced to leave so their land can be sold to a property developer.
On Cambodia's White Coast where beaches are an increasing draw for foreign tourists, the people of Kom Penh Chit fishing village are barred from the adjoining beach because it's been sold off to developers while local farmers have also suffered displacement because their coastal farms were highly prized for development.
In a 'resettlement village' where the government has relocated people it has evicted from the capital, the residents live under tarpaulin sheets and diseases like typhoid, dengue fever, pneumonia, tuberculosis and dysentery are endemic. It is a chilling echo of the suffering of those evicted from Phnom Penh by the Khmer Rouge. As one woman tells her story, she says she has already survived the Khmer Rouge regime, but after this eviction she feels her life is over.
This time, however, it is capitalism, not communism, that is displacing them, as growing numbers of tourists fuel a property boom that is having devastating results.
In Phnom Penh where land is now worth three times as much as two years ago, Unreported World investigates allegations that the Cambodian authorities are behind a policy of violent evictions of the country's poor from their homes. The inhabitants of the slum district of Dey Krahorm, which is home to 120 families and right next to central Phnom Penh's plush new hotels, embassies and new National Assembly, are being forced to leave so their land can be sold to a property developer.
On Cambodia's White Coast where beaches are an increasing draw for foreign tourists, the people of Kom Penh Chit fishing village are barred from the adjoining beach because it's been sold off to developers while local farmers have also suffered displacement because their coastal farms were highly prized for development.
In a 'resettlement village' where the government has relocated people it has evicted from the capital, the residents live under tarpaulin sheets and diseases like typhoid, dengue fever, pneumonia, tuberculosis and dysentery are endemic. It is a chilling echo of the suffering of those evicted from Phnom Penh by the Khmer Rouge. As one woman tells her story, she says she has already survived the Khmer Rouge regime, but after this eviction she feels her life is over.
4 comments:
it's not for sale, rumor! it's a way of improving and getting supports for preserving it and turning into in an educational tour and tourist attraction, etc, really.
not really, it could happen under any administration, really! and it is not for sell, really!
What hun sen regime sole, their children will reaps it! sooner or later. Their children gonna asks " why God ". Its not God fault, but what their parent did.
Democratic Kampuchea Pol Pot Khmer Rouge Regime
Members:
Pol Pot
Nuon Chea
Ieng Sary
Ta Mok
Khieu Samphan
Son Sen
Ieng Thearith
Kaing Kek Iev
Hun Sen
Chea Sim
Heng Samrin
Hor Namhong
Keat Chhon
Ouk Bunchhoeun
Sim Ka...
Committed:
Tortures
Brutality
Executions
Massacres
Mass Murder
Genocide
Atrocities
Crimes Against Humanity
Starvations
Slavery
Force Labour
Overwork to Death
Human Abuses
Persecution
Unlawful Detention
Cambodian People's Party Hun Sen Khmer Rouge Regime
Members:
Hun Sen
Chea Sim
Heng Samrin
Hor Namhong
Keat Chhon
Ouk Bunchhoeun
Sim Ka...
Committed:
Attempted Murders
Attempted Murder on Chea Vichea
Attempted Assassinations
Attempted Assassination on Sam Rainsy
Assassinations
Assassinated Journalists
Assassinated Political Opponents
Assassinated Leaders of the Free Trade Union
Assassinated over 80 members of Sam Rainsy Party.
"But as of today, over eighty members of my party have been assassinated. Countless others have been injured, arrested, jailed, or forced to go into hiding or into exile."
Sam Rainsy LIC 31 October 2009 - Cairo, Egypt
Executions
Executed over 100 members of FUNCINPEC Party
Murders
Murdered 3 Leaders of the Free Trade Union
Murdered Chea Vichea
Murdered Ros Sovannareth
Murdered Hy Vuthy
Murdered Journalists
Murdered Khim Sambo
Murdered Khim Sambo's son
Murdered members of Sam Rainsy Party.
Murdered activists of Sam Rainsy Party
Murdered Innocent Men
Murdered Innocent Women
Murdered Innocent Children
Killed Innocent Khmer Peoples.
Extrajudicial Execution
Grenade Attack
Terrorism
Drive by Shooting
Brutalities
Police Brutality Against Monks
Police Brutality Against Evictees
Tortures
Intimidations
Death Threats
Threatening
Human Abductions
Human Abuses
Human Rights Abuses
Human Trafficking
Drugs Trafficking
Under Age Child Sex
Corruptions
Bribery
Embezzlement
Treason
Border Encroachment, allow Vietnam to encroaching into Cambodia.
Signed away our territories to Vietnam; Koh Tral, almost half of our ocean territory oil field and others.
Illegal Arrest
Illegal Mass Evictions
Illegal Land Grabbing
Illegal Firearms
Illegal Logging
Illegal Deforestation
Illegally use of remote detonation bomb on Sokha Helicopter, while Hok Lundy and other military officials were on board.
Lightning strike many airplanes, but did not fall from the sky. Lightning strike out side of airplane and discharge electricity to ground.
Source: Lightning, Discovery Channel
Illegally Sold State Properties
Illegally Removed 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.
Use Dead people's names to vote for Cambodian People's Party.
Disqualified potential Sam Rainsy Party's voters.
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
Persecution
Unlawful Detention
Death in custody.
Under the Cambodian People's Party Hun Sen Khmer Rouge Regime, no criminals that has been committed crimes against journalists, political opponents, leaders of the Free Trade Union, innocent men, women and children have ever been brought to justice.
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