Monday, February 28, 2011

Boeung Kak Lake residents protest, shut down Monivong street; Cops violence

Beoung Kak protesters shut down Monivong Street

28 Feb 2011
By Ratana
Cambodia Express News
Translated from Khmer by Soch

Phnom Penh – More than 100 Boeung Kak Lake residents have gathered to protest in front of the Phnom Penh city hall in the morning of 28 February, asking the Phnom Penh authority to provide them with a resolution. The protesters shut down a portion of the Monivong Street causing a major traffic jam.

The cops are currently trying to break up the protesters and to reopen the road. During a press conference held a few days earlier, the residents asked that the Shukaku Inc. company to provide them with a 15-hectare land plot, and they also asked that the authority allow them to rebuild their houses on the spot. According the residents, their demand was handed over the city hall and the Shukaku Inc. company on 26 January 2011, but no answer or resolution was ever provided to them.
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Cops break up protesters; Monivong Street reopened

Phnom Penh – Boeung Kak protesters who shut down the Monivong Street in front of the Phnom Penh city hall to protest this morning, were disbanded by the anti-riot cops and the street is now reopened to traffic.

Confrontation between the protesters and the cops led to a clash. A woman was arrested and another protester passed out. Many other protesters were injured.
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Boeung Kak residents regroup in front of Daun Penh district office to protest

Phnom Penh – After the cops broke them up in front of the Phnom Penh city hall this morning, Boeung Kak Lake residents have regrouped in front of the Daun Penh district office to demand that the authority release the 3 residents arrested during a previous protest. The three arrested are: Mrs. Ruos, Mrs. Duong Samay and Mr. Uoch Phanna. The residents are also protesting the violence used by the cops to break them up.

The residents shut down a portion of Monivong Street in front of the city hall to protest this morning, but they were broken up by the riot cops. The street was then reopened to traffic. A clash took place between the protesters and the cops. Three residents were arrested, one passed out and several others were injured.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

If motherfuckers take land from people like that what we fight to protrct them for!

May lightning strike motherfuckers the corroptors and vtraitors!

Do ma ah Kwack!

Anonymous said...

Give land back tom poeople ah Hun xen!

Anonymous said...

if Thai bomb on the head of the Dickhead do people from Beung Kok get any worst?????

Hope you dead soon ah kwack!

Anonymous said...

TO day other tomorow it may be you and no one left to help you! selfish brain!!

Anonymous said...

Keep on protesting Beung Kak residents and I salute your fighting spirits. All Khmer in Phnom Penh please lend support to our brother and sisters in Beung Kak, and let shut down the whole of Phnom Penh.This may be the beginning of revolution. Mr Hun Hen and cronies, don't dare to close the doors and hit the dogs. The world is watching you, I warn.

Anonymous said...

Get out to protest few hundred people
,it means nothing.
It gets hurt and injured or killed.
If few million people get out to protest,it can accomplish or can be
changed for the better.
So,please don't do that again.
The police will beat and kill you like dogs.