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| A woman sits under her temporary shelter in Borei Keila yesterday. About 100 police officers and authorities yesterday pulled down a few such shelters erected by former residents. (Photo by Hong Menea) |
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| People evicted from the Borei Keila community sit under temporary shelters yesterday after local authorities pulled down several such shelters and ordered inhabitants to leave. (Photo by Hong Menea) |
Wednesday, 11 April 2012
Khouth Sophakchakrya
The Phnom Penh Post
A group of police officers, security guards and Prampi Makara district authorities were unsuccessful yesterday in their attempts to demolish the remaining makeshift living quarters that are being inhabited by families in the Borei Keila community.
Chum Ngann, representative for the evictees living at the site where their houses were bulldozed in January, said a group of about 100 police officers and authorities armed with shields, electric batons and axes descended upon the site yesterday morning.
She added that residents struggled with the forces, who managed to destroy a few of their makeshift shelters before retreating.
“We haven’t had shelter since January 3. Our plastic tents under the roof and stairs are filled with the bad smell of the waste from our last shelters,” the representative said yesterday.
Deputy governor of the Prampi Makara district, who was at the scene yesterday, expressed his concern for maintaining public order in the area.
“This kind of set up is tent anarchy, and will affect the environment in the Borei Keila development area,” he said.
Tim Sakmony, a resident who helped to repel the authorities yesterday, said the evictees would not be is such a dire situation if the Phan Imex company followed through with their promise to construct 10 buildings in which they could be housed.
Phan Imex only constructed eight of the 10 promised housing structures.
“Who could be happy and wants to live in a terrible situation? We have no choice, so we struggle to live and are waiting to receive a fair solution from the authorities who made us this way,” Tim Sakmony said.
Secretariat director for the Housing Rights Task Force Sia Phirum said the authorities are aware of the struggles that the evictees face, but have merely chosen to ignore them.
“Until the residents start to live in houses and have proper businesses, they will live in tents and under stairs. When will the authorities stop this eviction plan and provide additional compensation?” he asked.
6 comments:
Or until the residents stop acting like uneducated animals and stop voting for CPP.
But as soon as CPP gives them some money and some plot of lands, these uneducated animals will praise the Hun Sen government.
2:55 PM,
Can you call Yuon/Vietnamese animals, too, who settled illegally in Cambodia? You sound like a Yuon to us and you promote the hate to those poor people because you jumped to the conclusion that they voted for CPP. How dare you?
You called those people animals because they look dirty and devastated after they are illegally evicted.
You are so mean!
SRP Supporter here.
Youn may be living illegally but DUMB Khmer are the one also voting for CPP.
Why else are so many DUMB Khmer still defending the Vietminh Hun Sen and his families?
You@9:24 PM are 2:55 PM!!!!
How suspicious are you!!!
SRP Supporter here
Those Cambodian farmers are not animal, only the one that call them is "animal". You need to be a role model, not critizing. Just because the're not educated, it's doesn't mean they're animal. How do you feel if they treat you that way? Be nice my friend, thx..
Haha. Good Then you can teach other DUMB lazy Khmer to stop voting for CPP. Nothing is free in life.
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