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| Heng Mom, a prominent Boeung Kak protester, begs for justice after finding out Bopha and Sakmony’s bail have been denied by the court. Phnom Penh, Cambodia. © Erika Pineros 2012 |
12 November 2012
By Ly Seila
Cambodia Express News
Translated from Khmer by Soy
Phnom Penh – The mouthpiece of the Phnom Penh city hall issued a verbal warning on Monday 12 November, indicating that the authority will take measure to arrest land protesters – such as evicted Boeung Kak Lake residents and Borei Keila residents – during the ASEAN summit which will take place between 15 and 20 November 2012 in Phnom Penh.
Long Dimang, mouthpiece of the Phnom Penh city hall, told CEN on Moday morning that: “We saw one kind of protesters who set up residence in anarchy in front of the US embassy near Wat Phnom Park, and we consider them as vagabonds. Therefore the Phnom Penh city hall will take welfare measures.”
Long Dimang’s barking came at a time when a group of residents facing land dispute from Boeung Kak, Borei Keila and near the Pochentong airport gathered in front of the US embassy, located next to Wat Phnom Park, in the morning of 12 November 2012. They came over to hand a petition to seek US President’s Obama intervention on the Cambodian government in their land dispute, and they also seek the release of one woman resident from Boeung Kak and one woman resident from Borei Keila who were arrested.
Obama is expected to attend the US-ASEAN summit and the Southeast Asia summit, and he will also meet with ASEAN leaders as well as other Superpower leaders during the meeting in Phnom Penh on 19 and 20 November 2012.
Boeung Kak Lake and Borei Keila residents have also planned their gathering for some time already and they are seeking intervention from Obama.
During the ASEAN summit and during the various meetings, civil society activists and residents embroiled in land dispute plan to meet to hold a march to hand over their petition of ASEAN leaders, as well as Superpower leaders, such as Obama.
3 comments:
Stupid law of Yuon-Vietnamese jungle over Hun Sen who is a low class 5th grade peasant and who was brainwashed by his Yuon-Vietnamese dog eating masters in Hanoi and deadly Ho Chi Minh
Begs for justice? Don't have to begs for justice what's jungle justice!....Injustice will not stands,justice will prevail...
"...we consider them as vagabonds..."
Long Dimanche is a son of Long Visalo, the second man in the ministry of foreign affairs after Hor Nam Hong. With the father's help, the son gets a job in Mr. Kep's office.
In present-day Cambodia where one gets an important job not because one is truly qualified for the job, itself, but because one was at one time a sperm of a man who is an important official in the government of PM Hun Sen, we should not be surprised to hear such an outrageous and insulting comment made irresponsibly on other less fortunate, but much more pure, morally speaking, citizens of Cambodia.
Perhaps Long Dimanche should ask his father if he had joined the KR or the communists in the 60s and 70s out of his (the father's) genuine concerns for the poor Cambodians whom they thought had been poor because of social inequality and injustice.
Instead of blaming the poor people in Phnom Penh, Long Dimanche should use his brain, if he has any, to figure out how to help these so-called vagabonds become successful citizens of the country; after all, he works for the city, doesn't he?
Pissed Off
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