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Oct 27, 2010
DPA
Phnom Penh - Police on Wednesday prevented dozens of Phnom Penh residents who face eviction from protesting near the motorcade carrying United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.
Ban arrived in Phnom Penh late Tuesday on a two-day official visit, and met Prime Minister Hun Sen Wednesday morning.
Earlier this week residents from the Boeung Kak lake area in central Phnom Penh submitted a petition to the UN requesting a meeting with Ban to discuss efforts to evict them from land on which many have lived for decades.
The site was leased to a company linked to a senator from the ruling Cambodian People's Party, and the lake is being filled in ahead of the development project. Hundreds of people have been evicted, and thousands more have been told they will lose their homes.
A number of other civil society groups have also requested meetings with Ban to discuss what many see as a worsening environment for civil society.
Aimee Brown, a spokeswoman for the Office of the UN Resident Coordinator in Phnom Penh, said Ban knew of the requests, but said his office had not yet decided on whether he would meet them.
'He's definitely aware that there are protestors, and he is aware of the petitions that have been received,' Brown said.
Land-grabbing and evictions are a serious problem in Cambodia, and tens of thousands of people have been thrown off their land in recent years as values have rocketed.
On Monday, Human Rights Watch called on Ban to address the issue during his visit, saying the country's 'respect for fundamental human rights and the process of democratization continues its precipitous decline.'
Later on Wednesday Ban is scheduled to visit the hybrid UN-Cambodian tribunal, which earlier this year convicted former Khmer Rouge security chief Comrade Duch of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Ban is scheduled to depart on Thursday for Vietnam, where he will attend a summit between the United Nations and the regional Association of South-East Asian Nations bloc. He will then head to China as part of his four-nation tour.
His trip began in Thailand, where he met Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva and senior officials.
4 comments:
Ah chhkae yuon hun xen ban chak ruk lok ban kimoon aoy do lok christophe peschoux chenh pi srok khmer, boe min do vea bet angka sit monus sahak prochea cheat nov Kampuchea.
Yuon doggy hun xen convinced Ban Kimoon to change Christophe Peschoux from his position in Cambodia, otherwise he will close the UN Human Rights in Cambodia.
LONG LIVE VIET NAM..
good work hun sen and cpp
You wishes you never born as khmer.. next time born as vietnamese maybe you will be smarter
LONG LIVE VEIT NAM.. You all should wishes that you never born and if you born next born as vietnamese so you be smarter...
Hun sen and CPP doing a good job for US... the master.. and Phay siphan providing a good lip services and SOK Siphana and Sarin Donora are working hard to manipulate all the foerigners there for us.. the rest of our vietnamese brother and sisters are all in every officials position in the cambodian government.
Long live Viet Nam
soon we will take thailand too
You all khmer wishes you never born.. next time make sure you born as a vietnamses maybe you a little smarter
you all useless khmer peoples have no more chance.. we vietnam controle your idiot king... HUN SEN and all the family and CPP.. we have our citizen in every level of your government.. basically we run you whole country for you.. becuase you khmer are useless and stupid and idiot.. if you dont believe ask you parent..
look you country now.. it is the fact you wishes you never born.. next time you better born as vietnamese.. Long live viet nam.. soon we will control even thailand the land of gay and lesbian they dont care they only make love .. so it will be more easy..
we want to thank hun sen and cpp ... personal that to phay siphan for his lip services and sok siphana the brother inlaw to the rapist young girls minister of information and Sarin Denora for their manipulation to all the idiot foreigners in cambodian .. we will reward you and we will keep you in power..
SHORT LIVE VIETNAM. GO TO HELL UNDER THE VOLCANOES,BURN ALIVE!
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