Police began pushing, hitting and kicking the demonstrators, eye witnesses and rights workers said after they failed to disperse after the demonstration. (Photo: Heng Reaksmey)
Wednesday, 11 January 2012
Heng Reaksmey, VOA Khmer | Phnom Penh
“I saw police pushing a child, but when I tried to save the child during a clash, police pushed me to the ground and kicked me.”
At least 30 demonstrators from the embattled Borei Keila neighborhood of Phnom Penh were put onto buses and moved away from City Hall, where they had been protesting a forced eviction.
Police moved the demonstrators to the Prey Speu “rehabilitation center,” in Dangkao district, where they are being held.
The residents of Borei Keila have been embroiled in the latest in a series of violent forced evictions that have led to demonstrations, but this is the first instance where police have detained protestors en masse.
Around 100 demonstrators had gathered in front of the city building to demand that authorities release eight residents arrested in clashes with police last week during a forced eviction of the neighborhood, which is slated for development.
Residents and rights groups say the development company, Phan Imex, failed to build enough housing for the number of residents that would be displaced by their development plan.
Representatives delivered a letter to city officials, but demonstrators refused to clear out afterwards. Police began pushing, hitting and kicking the demonstrators, eye witnesses and rights workers said afterwards.
“I saw police pushing a child, but when I tried to save the child during a clash, police pushed me to the ground and kicked me,” said Khieu Lay, a 38-year-old Borei Keila resident. “I have a heart condition and so I fainted.”
Nearby demonstrators revived her. Most of Wednesday’s demonstrators were women, some were children.
Heng You, a 10-year-old student from Back Tuol elementary school who came to protest with her mother, said she had not been to class for “many days.”
“I have no desire to study,” she said. “I lost my house on Jan. 3, and I have no place to live.”
Around 300 families lost their homes in the Jan. 3 forced eviction of Borei Keila, during which time residents threw rocks and bottles at police.
Am Sam Ath, a rights investigator for Licadho, said the city and national governments need to find a solution for the residents who lost their homes.
Phan Imex was supposed to build 10 housing units in a deal to share land with residents who would be dispossessed under their development plan, but the company only built eight, he said. “That’s why the villagers have no place to live.”
Phan Imex director Suy Siphan said those families who were evicted were without legal documentation and that building eight housing units was sufficient for the former residents. (sic!)
11 comments:
The international communities should understand Vietnam's true intention of trying to mold Cambodia into a part of Vietnam.
To make this idea materialize, Vietnam must create trouble in Cambodia so that it could take advantage of the situation.
For instance, Vietnam created Khmer Vietminh and brainwashed them to kill Khmers during the Pol Pot's era.
Just curious:
Does international law allow one country to kidnap the children of its neighbors and brainwash them and later use them to attack their own Country and commit the mass killing of their own people?
Vietnam did exactly like that to Cambodia. That's why approximately 3 million Cambodians have perished from 1975 to 1979 because of Vietnam's bad intention toward Cambodia.
In addition, hundred of thousands of Khmer people dies in the 80s due to Vietnam’s deployment of the K5 project.
If the killings during the Pol Pot era’s were not clear that mostly were committed by the Khmer Vietminh, the K5 project on the other hand explicitly reflected Vietnam’s vicious intention toward Cambodia because Cambodia at the time was fully controlled by Vietnam, which was the chief architect of the K5 project.
The United Nations should look into this unique case of Vietnam’s interference in Cambodia. It should also examine at present Vietnam’s dominance in Cambodia too.
During my young life, I have heard my people lamented that why Khmer people always suffer?
Because Vietnam has its own plan of making Cambodian people suffer and exploit it. Vietnam has always found some dumb Khmers such as Hun Sen to carry out strictly its orders – no matter what the costs to Khmer people and Cambodia.
For instance, why did Hun Sen implement those bilateral treaties and defied the 1991 Paris peace accord?
តើមានឃើញបងប្អូនហ៊ុនសែនមឺនឆ្នាំយួនរង គ្រោះថ្នាក់នៅបូរីកីឡាទេ បងប្អូន?
អាស្រកីខាងលើ! ការរើបំរៈរបស់ខ្មែរគឺមិនទាន់ហួសពេលទេអាឈាមឈ្នើង! ខ្មែរបានស្គាល់ឈាមនិងមុខពួកអាឆ្កែអស់ឯងច្បាស់ណាស់ ការឈឺចាប់និងការកៀបសង្កត់របស់ពួកឯងសព្វថ្ងៃនេះធ្វើអោយពលរដ្ឋខ្មែរទ្រាំលែងបានតទៅទៀតហើយ។ ដូច្នេះខ្មែរត្រូវតែហ៊ានតដៃវិញដើម្បីរស់ នៅពេលដែលខ្មែរលែងខ្លាចស្លាប់ក្បាល់ពួកអស់ឯងប្រុងអោយមែនទែន!។ ចំណែកអាពីរក្បាលខាងលើនេះក៏មិនរួចពីកណ្តាប់ដៃកូនខ្មែរដែរ ព្រោះវាទាំងពីរក្បាលជាមេក្បត់ជាតិ។
Samdache Decho Hun Sen said: "Where are the fucken Lotus and Jasmine Revolution shit? Aren't they cowards or what?
If these don't make them raise up their revolution shit. It will never ever happen in my Kingdom of wonder because they are shit and coward already! Unlike me I lost my eye for the revolution in the fight. Who is coward now fuckers?
Samdache Decho Hun Sen said: "Where are the fucken Lotus and Jasmine Revolution shit? Aren't they cowards or what?
If these don't make them raise up their revolution shit. It will never ever happen in my Kingdom of wonder because they are shit and coward already! Unlike me I lost my eye for the revolution in the fight. Who is coward now fuckers?
Samdache Decho Hun Sen said: "Where are the fucken Lotus and Jasmine Revolution shit? Aren't they cowards or what?
If these don't make them raise up their revolution shit. It will never ever happen in my Kingdom of wonder because they are shit and coward already! Unlike me I lost my eye for the revolution in the fight. Who is coward now fuckers?
Samdache Decho Hun Sen said: "Where are the fucken Lotus and Jasmine Revolution shit? Aren't they cowards or what?
If these don't make them raise up their revolution shit. It will never ever happen in my Kingdom of wonder because they are shit and coward already! Unlike me I lost my eye for the revolution in the fight. Who is coward now fuckers?
Samdache Decho Hun Sen said: "Where are the fucken Lotus and Jasmine Revolution shit? Aren't they cowards or what?
If these don't make them raise up their revolution shit. It will never ever happen in my Kingdom of wonder because they are shit and coward already! Unlike me I lost my eye for the revolution in the fight. Who is coward now fuckers?
I supported your ideas,8:59AM.
To the rest above me:
You are Hun Sen dog.Ah Hun Sen did
not know how to read,write,or speak
English.He was a fifth grader when
he left high school in 1970.
You are pretending that you're ah
Hun Sen! That's too bad ah dog fucker.
I knew who ah Hun Sen was.
I lived in Kompong Cham.I was ah
Hun Sen neighbor.
How come ah Hun Sen was bind an eye?
His eye was poked by a tree branch.
10:23 AM,
YES,
Ah Hun Sen's family belonged to BULL THIEVES along Khmer-Yuon border from hid grandpa, to father, sons including Hun Nal.
I'm a native to Kampong Cham too.
Correction on:
10:23AM
How come ah Hun Sen was blind an eye?
I admitted my faults or my mistakes.
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