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| Residents threatened with eviction from the Boeung Kak lake area protest outside City Hall in Phnom Penh last Friday. (Photo by: Sovan Philong) |
Wednesday, 30 March 2011
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
The Phnom Penh Post
Resident of the Boeung Kak lakeside said yesterday that they would organise protests if a meeting scheduled for today with Phnom Penh Municipal Governor Kep Chuktema did not achieve a resolution to their alternative development plan for families threatened with eviction.
City Hall on Monday issued a letter confirming the meeting between Kep Chuktema and five villager representatives to discuss a request for the allocation of 15 hectares of land for villagers at the site of a commercial and residential development project on the Boeung Kak lakeside.
Huot Muth Dy, a resident of Village 20 in Daun Penh district’s Srah Chak commune, said that she hopes the meeting will end in a victory for potentially displaced villagers.
“I hope that the result of the discussions will be positive and bring an end to the dispute between villagers and authorities and Shukaku Inc,” said Huot Muth Dy.
Nop Phearom, a resident of Village 1, said that the representatives should reject any offer from authorities that does not support villagers’ requests.
“If it is negative, we will make a stronger protest than before,” said Nop Phearom. “To reach this step, we have agreed not to accept financial compensation or any other developments in other places.”
More than 100 lakeside villagers had prepared on Sunday to assemble at City Hall for a meeting with Kep Chuktema before being informed by Daun Penh District Deputy Governor Sok Penhvuth that the meeting had been delayed until today.
Villagers demanded written confirmation from officials that the meeting would in fact take place. They then received the letter on Monday from City Hall Administration Chief Ly Saveth.
In 2007, Kep Chuktema signed a 99-year lease for Shukaku Inc – a development firm owned by ruling party Senator Lao Meng Khin, and Chinese firm Erdos Hong Jun Property Development Co – to develop a US$79 million commercial and residential project on 133 hectares of land around Boeung Kak lake, which rights organisations estimate will lead to the eviction of at least 4,000 families.
6 comments:
All I see is YOUN/Khmer - Khmer/YOUN, I don't see any Khmers at the Boeung Kak lake area.
Please Khmer/Cambodian people from Khmer Krom (Souther Vietnam) with 18 millions, from Cambodia with 14 millions, and other Khmer Surin and abroad, stand together to fight back or protest against the Vietcong/Yuon Communist Hanoi masters who have ordered Hun Sen (their puppet), CPP Yuon High Ranking members to hurt Khmer/Cambodian people, destroy the forests and natural resources, take Cambodia land and sale land of Cambodia to Vietcong Communist Hanoi (their secret plan and tricks), allow the illegal Vietnamese/Yuon people to stay inside Cambodia and take advantage of Cambodia and over fish Mekong Lakes, do the dirty businesses, and so on.
Those are evil bastards and bitches. Tell the UN, International Communities, NATO allies and the powerful countries about those corrupted and evil idiots.
Koh Tral Island must not be forgotten
By Ms. Rattana Keo
Why do Koh Tral Island, known in Vietnam as Phu Quoc, a sea and land area covering proximately over 10,000 km2 [Note: the actual land size of Koh Tral itself is 574 square kilometres (222 sq miles)] have been lost to Vietnam by whose treaty? Why don’t Cambodia government be transparent and explain to Cambodia army at front line and the whole nation about this? Why don't they include this into education system? Why?
Cambodian armies are fighting at front line for 4.6 km2 on the Thai border and what's about over 10,000km2 of Cambodia to Vietnam. Nobody dare to talk about it! Why? Cambodian armies you are decide the fate of your nation, Cambodian army as well as Cambodian people must rethink about this again and again. Is it fair?
Koh Tral Island, the sea and land area of over 10,000 square kilometres have been lost to Vietnam by the 1979 to 1985 treaties. The Cambodian army at front line as well as all Cambodian people must rethink again about these issues. Are Cambodian army fighting to protect the Cambodia Nation or protecting a very small group that own big lands, big properties or only protecting a small group but disguising as protecting the Khmer nation?
The Cambodian army at front lines suffer under rain, wind, bullets, bombs, lack of foods, lack of nutrition and their families have no health care assistance, no securities after they died but a very small group eat well, sleep well, sleep in first class hotel with air conditioning system with message from young girls, have first class medical care from oversea medical treatments, they are billionaires, millionaires who sell out the country to be rich and make the Cambodian people suffer everyday.
Who signed the treaty 1979-1985 that resulted in the loss over 10,000 km2 of Cambodia??? Why they are not being transparent and brave enough to inform all Cambodians and Cambodian army at front line about these issues? Why don't they include Koh Tral (Koh Tral size is bigger than the whole Phom Phen and bigger than Singapore [Note: Singapore's present land size is 704 km2 (271.8 sq mi)]) with heap of great natural resources, in the Cambodian education system?
Look at Hun Sen's families, relatives and friends- they are billionaires, millionaires. Where did they get the money from when we all just got out of war with empty hands [in 1979]? Hun Sen always say in his speeches that Cambodia had just risen up from the ashes of war, just got up from Year Zero with empty hands and how come they are billionaires, millionaires but 90% of innocent Cambodian people are so poor and struggling with their livelihood every day?
Smart Khmer girl Ms. Rattana Keo,
To 6:23PM,
Because you are blind like Hun Sen that what you are able to see them as
Khmer people.
Khmer abroad and Khmer in Cambodia should protest to support residents in Boeung kok Lakeside.
6:23pm and Hun Sen are Yuon dogs,they
can't see them what they can see are
money and power.
Go to hell all of you.
9:55 PM,
Because Khmer in our country want to be YOUN, they wear pant and blouse like YOUN and Chen, they don't intend to wear Khmer, Sampot or Sarong and Kroma. That's why I said all I see is YOUN - Khmer want to be YOUN. YOUN/VIET likes very much to see Khmer changed their living styles. DO you understand Ah Khmer abroad?
these people are really mad at their forced eviction, etc!
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