Thursday, May 10, 2012

Evictees Petition UN Rights Envoy for Homes


U.N. special rapporteur Surya Subedi walks through a Cambodian national flag upon his arrival in a conference room at the U.N. headquarter in Phnom Penh, (file photo).
Heng Reaksmey, VOA Khmer | Phnom Penh
Wednesday, 09 May 2012
“Help us have a house to live in after eviction.
Displaced villagers from two Phnom Penh neighborhoods on Wednesday submitted a petition to the UN’s human rights envoy, who is in Cambodia on a routine fact-finding mission.
The envoy, Surya Subedi, was visiting the Phnom Penh eviction site of Borei Keila, from where hundreds of families have been pushed out to make way for a development project.
They have since been relocated to a ramshackle site outside Phnom Penh, but the development company Phanimex says it has built enough housing for the families its project ousted. Still, more than 100 families were left homeless by the Jan. 3 forced eviction.

Help us have a house to live in after eviction,” the petition said.
Subedi told about 100 evictees from Borei Keila and the Boeung Kak lake development site that he had a “great deal of sympathy” for their situation and would continue monitoring it.
Prior to his arrival, protesters gathered at the eviction site calling on Phanimex to provide more housing. “I urge the company to respect its promise,” said protester Su Iem, 58.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

cambodia needs to build more housings for lowl-income people and to create housing rights. i told you, it is the lack of these basic rights that we all taking for granted in the western world, that cambodia needs, you know.

Anonymous said...

2:03 AM,

Why have you kept faking again and again, OK!, I know!, Really!, You Know!, blah blah blah....When are you going to stop being so blind. You need to have a big eye glasses to put on so that you can see the real problems Cambodia people faking.

You are still thinking like a three year old kid.