http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjJA1W-KrnY
They're known as the BK13 and they're not prepared to let greedy developers take the very, very little they have. They're 13 women -- mothers, grandmothers - who live around what used to be Boeung Kak Lake -- not far from the centre of Cambodia's capital Phnom Penh. The lake has been filled in and many of their neighbours have been moved on - their houses flattened - but the BK13 aren't going anywhere. They're going to defend their homes with every ounce of energy they can muster. They'll need to.
"Every time we leave our home is the same as a soldier going to fight on the battlefield. Every time we leave we face arrest and they beat us. We don't know if they will use violence against us or if we will lose our lives." Tep Vanny -- BK13
Phnom Penh is growing fast as Cambodia races to join Asia's development frenzy and busily renovates itself as a competitive, commercial destination. But as the capital expands, thousands of lives are being crushed. Beyond the city many more developments are pushing people from their homes. A half a million residents have been forcibly evicted in recent years.
Indeed when Foreign Correspondent first threw the spotlight on this issue in 2006 we visited a community of people who'd been marched from their shacks into a shanty of tents and plastic sheeting as the monsoonal rain threatened to wash it all away. We found a shirtless man wailing and railing at the injustice.
"We're all human beings! Why have they done this to us? It's so painful. It would be better if they killed me!" he yells, soaking wet. Six years later, as we return to Cambodia to re-examine the issue, South East Asia Correspondent Zoe Daniel sets off to discover what happened to him. She finds him in appalling conditions. A motley shack the size of a garden shed with half the roof missing and mosquito larvae writhing in the shower recess. Like many evictees Chan Meng has found himself in temporary accommodation and could be moved on again at any time.
"They want to move us around like cats and dogs!" Chan Meng Evictee
Zoe discovers that the issue of forced evictions has worsened over time. The BK13 may have become a cause celebre among Cambodia's poor and dispossessed and an inspiration to the powerless but they are feeling the pressure. They've been dragged into police vans, subjected to cursory court hearings, summary justice and jailed. Only international pressure brought their release.
And in the thick of the melee over land tenure and home ownership we meet Australian lawyer Matt Rendall, instrumental in drafting new land laws that are supposed to protect otherwise powerless occupants. Cambodia's land ownership was thrown into chaos when Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge extinguished private title. Rendall admits money and corruption are playing havoc with the new arrangements.
22 comments:
That is Hun Sen development. The Khmer people are worse than Pol Pot regime.
You @3:12 AM is a Vietnamese/Yuon dog eater who is a real killer of all time in Cambodia, secret Vietnamese/Yuon agent from Hanoi to Cambodia during Killing Fields of Khmer Rouges, blaming on Khmer Rouges as a scapegoat, worse than Hun Sen, Pol Pot, Mao Tsung. Yes, there are many Vietnamese/Yuon killers before, during and after Killing Fields of Khmer Rouges. Pol Pol's Khmer Rouges soldiers did not Khmer/Cambodian people, but the Vietnamese killers (Vietmink from Ho Chi Minh and Secret Vietnamese cadres from Hanoi, brainwashed Khmer Vietminh) killed million of high educated Khmer people. Pol Pot only tried to kill hidden faces Vietnamese/Yuon migrants living in Cambodian before and during the Killing Fields who are the spies in Cambodia.
3.35 AM
You are a pathetic dumb Khmer, not knowing who killed Khmer. I wish Pol Pot and his henhmen finish off you.
The you and Khmer Rouge alike killed Khmer. The idea that Khmer Rouge were nice people not killing Khmer is absolutely retarded. You should start primary school again.
You already talk like a Khmer Rouge killer.
5:15 AM,
Oh really, bullshitter, Dumb Yuon Dog Eater. I left Cambodia before April 17, 1975. You stupid and Dumb Vietnamese dog eater!!! Hahaha, you are a Yuon Born parasite who claimed on Khmer Rouges soldiers killed Cambodian people, but your Vietnamese dog eating parents and Vietnamese dog eaters are the real killers.
You need to go back read the history again, listen to Nuon Chea, Nathan interviewed Pol Pot, and other Khmer Lon Nol soldiers among Khmer Rouges who joined forces fight with the South Vietnam while Pol Pot was toppled by Vietnamese secret agents.
You are the one is so dumb and dumb enough to believe your Vietnamese killers and brainwashed to screw up your mind with Vietgook History
Hey Vietnamese whore @5:15 AM, you are a real Yiekcong killer hiding in Srok Khmer. How is your dog meat? You supported Vietnamese killer to blame Khmer people as Khmer Rouge.
Say hi your friend Theary Seng who loves you as a Vietnamese killer. You need to go to bed with her. She is horny!
5:15 AM is brainwashed by Vietnamese Killers and believed everything the Vietnamese killers said.
5:15 AM, one question, did you write the book about your life in Killing Fields and sold to everyone to read? The same thing to other stupid Vietnamese folks pretend to be Khmer victims of Killing Fields tried to sell the their story books to make money. How hypocrite the Vietnamese parasites are!!!
Readers who bought your books will kick your ass and push you to the ground because you manipulate them. Stupid Vietnamese whore!!!
5.59AM
You left Cambodia before 1975 ? No wonder you are still alive. Thank to the Yuon who spared your life.
I need to write more killing field books to expose your gentle Khmer Rouge niceties.
Fuck you Samdach Decho Hun Sen for make Cambodians suffer under your leadership for 30 years.
Cambodians are poor and suffer but your families, relatives, friends are so richer everyday under your 30 years leadership.
Fuck you Samdach Decho Hun Sen for allowing your relatives kill khmer people, bully khmer people, threatenning khmer people everyday.
Fuck you Samdach decho Hun Sen for your curruption goverment.
Fuck you samdach Decho Hun Sen for your fake, liar democracy and freedom of expression in Cambodia.
Fuck you Samdach Decho Hun sen for make Cambodia become smaller.
Fuck you Samdach Decho Hun Sen for your traitor.
Fuck you samdach decho Hun Sen for your liar to the world but the world aren't stupid as you
President Obama will send Drone for Hun Sen like Gaddafy, so Cambodian people must rise up to free yourself from 30 years dictator regime of Hun Sen.
Lotus Revolution must start to save khmer nation before it is too late!
Long live President Obama and democracy system like America system!
Hun Sen is prime minister of DESTROYING Cambodia for the benefit of the vietcong.
Samdach Hun Sen's government is keen to show that those in power are worthy of their posts and that wrongdoers will be weeded out just like ScamSR and some of his followers. Our free and fair elected leaders are also working so hard to tackle corruption among oppositions. Cambodian now a day enjoy freedom more than any other times in Cambodia history.ahahah Pi Anh
8:45 AM
Yes, Cambodians are enjoying the fake democracy under dictator 30 years.
And You Pi Anh is benefit from dictator.
Pi Anh is known as Hun Sen's relative.
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7:26 AM,
You must be stupid and arrogant. Look at Cambodia situation today. What do you see and hear in your own eyes and ears?
Are you dumb enough to believe your Yuou-Yiekcong killers instead of Khmer people are very high educated and understood very well.
7:26 AM - Are you Theary Seng? If you are, how dare you to argue and call own Khmer people bad name? You are the one who is dumb enough to believe in Yuon killers instead of Khmer Rouges who told the truths during the KR Trial and have not done the right things. You did not know that some people who did not know who were behind the Khmer Rouges and Pol Pot and beyond?
Can you answer that Vietnamese killers are still behind Hun Sen until today because Hun Sen let them?
10:27 AM,
Because you have guns to kill people that is why people have no hope to return home.
There is a drone coming to your fancy house with your thieves in your family. All of you are really thieves coming from the jungle like Hun Sen who is totally brainwashed by his Vietnamese killers.
10:27 AM,
How about Phay Siphan and others similar to him? You are one of them to say such thing?
Are you one of the Opportunists (Vietnamese and Khmer Refugees)?
All of you have never dong the right things, but like to cheat and steal.
US drones are waiting for Samdach Decho Hun Sen like Gaddafy.
The people had been moved, this is a misleading title and I'm sure they will be moved again. Why voted for! if you're going to be moved!!! does voting really have a say???? I guess not just an illusion if didn't realize it.
there is a giant step in the right direction would be to accept the fact that you're still a bunch of sore losers ( ScamSR and the followers). History will also judge your performent according to your useless and weak agendas, and the history will be written ScamSR as a paranoid leader, cry baby, fugitive, and a bunch of psychopath opportunist waiting to take advantage of poor people. The world have watched you sore losers haven't done anything to make Cambodian proud of your records. There're not a single list of all the good things you have done in the past and now to uplift people life. My hero samdach Hun Sen will forgive your sorry asses if you joined the CPP for this up comming election. You potato diggers made lots of painful mistakes in the past by dividing Cambodia apart, which is shame on you sore losers. It certainly that we (CPP) would forgive you if your leader ScamSr come back to Cambodia and serve his sentences and futher improve his image as a strong leader not the fugitive one. If he didn't dare to come back than stop begging for forgiveness from my hero Hun Sen, maybe it would be wise to seek counseling from Pi Anh.hahahaahah
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