អ្នកភូមិ​បឹងកក់​ខឹងសម្បា​រឿង​ក្រុមហ៊ុន​ធ្វើឲ្យលិចផ្ទះ​ពួកគាត់

អ្នកភូមិ​បឹងកក់​ដើរលុយ​ទឹក​ស្អុយ​ដែលហូរ​ជន់លិច​ពេញក្នុងផ្ទះ​របស់​ពួកគាត់​កាលពី​ម្សិលមិញ។ (រូបថត ផា លីណា)

Thursday, 16 February 2012
ឃុត សុភចរិយា
The Phnom Penh Post

ភ្នំពេញ: អ្នកភូមិ​បឹងកក់ កាលពី​ម្សិលមិញ បានបង្ហាញ​នូវ​ការខឹងសម្បា​ជាខ្លាំង ដោយសារ​ទឹកស្អុយ កាកសំណល់ និង​ល្បាប់​ភក់​ពណ៌ខ្មៅ ហូរ​ជនលិច​ចូលពេញ​ក្នុង​លំនៅដ្ឋាន​របស់​ពួកគេ​ពីរថ្ងៃ​ជាប់គ្នា​នៅក្នុង​ភូមិ ២៤ និងភូមិ ២២។

អ្នកស្រី ឆេង លាភ អាយុ​៤៥ ឆ្នាំ អ្នកភូមិ ២២ បាននិយាយ​ទាំង​ទឹកភ្នែក​រលីងរលោង​ថា ពេល​ត្រឡប់មក​ពីលក់​ចេកចៀន​វិញទឹក និង​ភក់​ដែល​លាយឡំ​នឹង​កាកសំណល់​ផ្ទះបាយ បានលិច​ចូលពេញ​ក្នុងផ្ទះ​របស់គាត់ ហើយ​ការុង​អង្ករ​បាន​លិចក្នុង​ភក់អស់​គ្មានសល់។

អ្នកស្រី ថ្លែងថា៖​ «ខ្ញុំ​ក្រីក្រមែន តែខ្ញុំ​មិនដែល​ឲ្យរដ្ឋាភិបាល​ពិបាក​នោះទេ ដូច្នេះ​សូម​អាជ្ញាធរ​រដ្ឋាភិបាល ពិនិត្យមើល​ក្រុមហ៊ុន​កុំឲ្យ​បង្ក​ការលំបាក​ដល់​យើង​ខ្ញុំ»។

Flooding in Village 22, BKL

Flooding in Village 22, BKL

A barrier of sand keeping water pumped by Shukaku Inc. from flooding households in the Boeung Kak area broke yesterday resulting in significant flooding of houses in Village 22. This is not the first time the poorly built barriers have collapsed, leading to flooding of households. It remains unclear if Shukaku Inc. will compensate the affected households. Click here to watch it: http://saveboeungkak.wordpress.com/2012/02/16/flooding-in-village-22-bkl/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9i3yegq5R0

Secretariat
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Housing Rights Task Force (HRTF)
HRTF:#2A, St.271, Sangkat Beoung
Tompun, Khan Chamcar Morn
Phnom Penh.
Evictions Hotline: (855) 068 470 480
Tel/Fax: (855) 023 996 531
Email: sd@hrtfcambodia.org
Website: www.hrtfcambodia.org
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HRTF is the coalition of local and international organizations that working
to Prevent Force Eviction and Promote Housing Rights in Cambodia.

Village 23 of BKL is facing flood for almost one month already

This morning (21 Jan) the resident of the Village 23 of Boeung Kak Lake informed that it is almost a month ago that their households faced flood with dirty and badly.

The MPP [Municipality of Phnom Penh] offer the land title and the company offer the flood in their village as well.

More information, please contact: 012 631 194

Secretariat
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Housing Rights Task Force (HRTF)
HRTF:#2A, St.271, Sangkat Beoung
Tompun, Khan Chamcar Morn
Phnom Penh.
Evictions Hotline: (855) 068 470 480
Tel/Fax: (855) 023 996 531
Email: sd@hrtfcambodia.org
Website: www.hrtfcambodia.org
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HRTF is the coalition of local and international organizations that working
to Prevent Force Eviction and Promote Housing Rights in Cambodia.

Winter flooding in Boeung Kak Lake Area on 06 November 2011

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xq9D16gEcek

Boeung Kak residents protest against sand pumping

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9IvfSqjtDo&feature=player_embedded

Boeung Kak Lake residents to hold a 5-day demonstration at the Freedom [Suppression] Park

Sand pumping to drown put houses by the evil Shukaku Inc. Co.

28 Dec 2010
Everyday.com.kh
Translated from Khmer by Soch

Residents of the Boeung Kak Lake area plan to hold a 5-day non-violent demonstration in January 2011 to demand that Kep Chuktema, the Phnom Penh city governor, resolve their land issues for them. Mrs. Huot Mutdy, the representative of the more than 150 families in Village No. 20, Srah Chork commune, Daun Penh district, told the Phnom Penh Post on Monday that she sent a letter to the city hall on Monday morning, asking for an authorization to hold a non-violent demonstration at the Freedom Park between 03 and 08 January 2011. Mrs. Huot said that residents of 7 villages will join in this demonstration to demand that Kep Chuktema remove their 15-hectare land plot from the development concession in Boeung Kak and allow the residents to build their houses on the land on their own. The residents also demanded that the Shukaku Inc. company negotiates to provide market value for their land and that it stops the sand pumping to drown out the residents.

Sacrava's Political Cartoon: Boeung KakCart

Cartoon by Sacrava (on the web at http://sacrava.blogspot.com)

Boeung Kak Lake: Residents plan 10 days of protests

Tuesday, 07 December 2010
Khouth Sophakchakrya
The Phnom Penh Post
Boeung Kak Lake

REPRESENTATIVES of about 200 residents of the Boeung Kak Lake area plan to submit a letter to City Hall today requesting permission to stage a 10-day protest at the newly established demonstration zone in Phnom Penh.

Ly Mom, a representative from Srah Chak commune’s Village 24, said residents hoped the planned protest would draw attention to an ongoing dispute with development company Shukaku Inc.

“We want to ask the leader of the government to give us the land titles and stop Shukaku Inc pumping sand to submerge our homes,” she said. “We expect that [Phnom Penh] governor Keb Chuktema will give us permission.”

She added, however, that residents planned to stage the protest – set to begin on December 10, which is International Human Rights Day – regardless of whether or not they received permission from City Hall.

Keb Chuktema and other City Hall officials said they were too busy to comment yesterday.

The capital’s demonstration zone opened in November.

Shukaku [belonging to Hun Xen's crony] pumped in sands to flood houses in Boeung Kak Lake

The Shukaku Inc. uses a vile tactics of drowning houses with pumped sand rather than use police forces to evict the residents (Photo: Tin Zakariya, RFA)

A Boeung Kak Lake residents passed out after confrontation with the cops in front of Hun Xen's fortress in the middle of Phnom Penh (Photo: Den Ayuthyea, RFA)

Suong Sophorn, a Boeung Kak Lake residents, was beaten by the cops for trying to hand a protest letter to Ban Ki-moon during his visit to Cambodia (Photo: The Phnom Penh Post)

07 November 2010
By Khmerization
Source: RFA

"During the Pol Pot era we thought that it was very cruel because they killed people, but this is a dictatorship which killed people on the spots" - Srey Mom, Boeung Kak Lake resident

38 homes in Boeung Kak Lake have been flooded with sands (pictured) and 100 other houses faced being flooded with sands after Shukaku company had in the last few days deliberately pumped sands to flood residents' houses in attempt to push them out of the area after many failed compensation negotiations.

As of Saturday 6th November, many large houses and wooden houses have been flooded with sands up to their roof and many owners were forced to flee their homes to live in rented houses.

Dara Roth, a student, said he has no hope of getting the compensation he had asked for after his houses had been bulldozed on Thursday 5th November. He said company representatives told him to register his name at Shukaku's office if he wants to get the $8,500 compensation offered by the company. However, he said people who live in the lake can accept the $8,500 but those who live overland with big land and houses should be offered more. "Those who live in the water can accept $8,500 because the lake is a state property, but these (lands) are private properties where people have lived since the 1980s", he said.

Srey Mom, whose house had been flooded with sands, said all her children dare not leave the house to go to school for fearing that they cannot find the way back home after the company had flooded houses and walkways in the area. "During the Pol Pot era we thought that it was very cruel because they killed people, but this is a dictatorship which killed people on the spots", she said.

Mrs. Meas Bopha, a former NGO worker, said she had raised 13 orphans and destitute children in her home and when the company pumped in the water to flood her house, she raised her house above the ground because she fear that her children might get electrocuted, but authority had come to threaten her with guns. "I don't understand this, I just renovate my own house and they have not paid compensation to me yet, and the company has never come to negotiate with me, and why they brought guns here and pointed them at my head", she said.

The government had given Boeung Kak Lake as concessions to Shukaku company, a joint venture between Senator Lao Meng Khin who is a senator from the ruling Cambodian People's Party and a Japanese company Shukaku, for $79 million for a 99-year lear lease to develop residential areas. The developments affect 4,200 families living in Boeung Kak. About 1,00 families had accepted the company's offer of $8,500 compensation while others had asked for more because they have bigger land and houses.

There are rumours that Prime Minister Hun Sen also had interests and shares in the Boeung Kak developments.

Boeung Kak residents claim their houses are submerged: Forced eviction by drowning

Residents Claim Flooding From Developer's Lake Fill

Boeung Kak Lake area flooding prior to the recent ran (Photo: AP)

Heng Reaksmey, VOA Khmer
Phnom Penh Tuesday, 12 October 2010

“I've never seen flooding like this after heavy rains.”

Heavy rains on Monday flooded the homes of at least 1,000 people in the Boeung Kak lake area of Phnom Penh, where residents say the pumping of sand and mud into the lake by a city developer has diminished a natural drainage system.

Most have now temporarily evacuated their flooded homes.

More than 50 people gathered in front of City Hall Tuesday to protest against the development, which has met with continued criticism.

The protesters delivered a complaint to city officials claiming their homes were filled with up to a half a meter of water after heavy rains. Some staid behind to yell their dismay, saying the development of areas of Phnom Penh were not good for its people.

Residents said Tuesday such flooding did not happen before Shukaku, Inc., began filling the lake as a development site.

Officials for Shukaku, which began filling the lake for a $79 million development in 2008, were not available for comment. The company is at odds with thousands of residents who say they have been offered a buy-out that is too small.

Phnom Penh Deputy Governor Pa Socheatevong said Tuesday the flooding was not caused by the pumping. Many areas of the capital had flooded as a result of heavy rains and a lack of drainage citywide, he said.

“Last night, I didn't sleep well, because of flooding in my house,” Laom Eang, a 38-year-old noodle vendor at Village 24 in the Srah Chok commune of Daun Penh district, said. She sat at her home, where she cooks for customers, and where floodwater 30 centimeters deep covered the floor. “I've never seen flooding like this after heavy rains,” she said, blaming the fill development, which seeks to cover about 120 hectares of lake.

Nearby, Kong Sokha, 44, who rents out a mobile gas stove from house to house, said he could no longer live in the area.

“I'm afraid the flood level will become higher and higher,” he said. “I've rented this house for nearly two months, but I've never seen it flood like this. The flood pollution has given me a little headache. My wife and I have decided to move to another place where there is no flood, to avoid danger.”

Lake Residents Mark World Habitat Day as Homes Flood [-Thanks to Lao Meng Khin, Hun Xen's crony]

A Cambodian couple dry clothes at their home in flood. (Photo: ASSOCIATED PRESS)

Chun Sakada, VOA Khmer
Phnom Penh Monday, 04 October 2010

“Villagers are facing homelessness. Now the company is pumping mud, sand and water, flooding my house up to the window.”

Residents of a Boeung Kak lake community joined a gathering in Phnom Penh on Monday to mark World Habitat Day, as their homes continue to be inundated with the sand and mud of a land development.

Residents say land developer Shukaku, Inc., has increased the pace of its fill operations, pumping dredge into the lake as it continues on a $79 million project, putting about 3,000 homes at risk, despite repeated protests.

“Villagers are facing homelessness,” said Ty Pisey, a 28-year-old lakeside resident. “Now the company is pumping mud, sand and water, flooding my house up to the window.”

Residents have made complaints to City Hall, the National Assembly, the Senate and the Council of Ministers, and they have protested in front of the house of Prime Minister Hun Sen.

Kong Chamroeun, Hun Sen's cabinet representative for the lake issue, said authorities have received the residents' complaints, but city officials must now study the complaints and review the situation before making a decision.

A spokesman for Shukaku, which is owned by Cambodian People's Party Senator Lao Meng Khim, said the company was continuing to fill the lake because it had not been ordered to stop.

The company has paid about 500 families compensation to relocate outside Phnom Penh, but many others have refused, claiming they do not want to leave the city or that the compensation offer is not enough. Meanwhile, since early 2008, the 300-hectare lake has continued to fill.

Khun Serey, a 53-year-old former lake resident, said she has already been forced from her home by the pumping.

“I took only my clothes, but everything else in the house I could not get out, because I had no place to put them,” she said. “No authorities have come to help solve my problem. I have no house to live in.”

Fifty-one-year-old resident Khy Reth said her house was flooded up to the windows, despite legal protests and a visit from district officials. “The company is gearing up to pump more and more,” she said.

The Human Rights Task Force, which advocates for residents around the lake, said in a statement Monday that Shukaku is pumping mud deliberately to force out the residents, who have undergone “ongoing harassment and intimidation.”

The group called for an immediate halt to the pumping and that the rights of residents to protest be protected.

Meanwhile, to mark World Habitat Day, Christophe Peschoux, head of UN's human rights office in Cambodia, addressed the residents and some 400 other participants at the Phnom Penh Cultural Center. He said in general people must be given the rights to land and housing. He called on a halt to the forced evictions. Such evictions have become a chronic source of disputes in Cambodia in recent years.

Small group of fed up women confront the regime's repression apparatus

Cambodian riot police disperse Boeung Kak Lake's villagers during a protest against local real estate developer Shukaku Inc. over unfair compensation, near Prime Minister Hun Sen's house in Phnom Penh October 1, 2010. Thousands of families living near the lake, which is currently half-filled with sand, are facing eviction after the government in 2007 awarded the land to a local real estate developer Shukaku Inc for private developments. Residents are demanding between $15,000 to $20,000 in compensation to move out but the government would only agree to around $8500 per family. The firm has been filling in the lake with sand causing frequent floods at the residents' homes, which prompted many protests over the years. REUTERS/Chor Sokunthea
Villagers from Boeung Kak Lake cry in front of Cambodian riot police during a protest against local real estate developer Shukaku Inc. over unfair compensation, near Prime Minister Hun Sen's house in Phnom Penh October 1, 2010. Thousands of families living near the lake, which is currently half-filled with sand, are facing eviction after the government in 2007 awarded the land to a local real estate developer Shukaku Inc for private developments. Residents are demanding between $15,000 to $20,000 in compensation to move out but the government would only agree to around $8500 per family. The firm has been filling in the lake with sand causing frequent floods at the residents' homes, which prompted many protests over the years. REUTERS/Chor Sokunthea
Villagers from Boeung Kak Lake help a woman (C) after she fainted during a protest against local real estate developer Shukaku Inc. over unfair compensation, near Prime Minister Hun Sen's house in Phnom Penh October 1, 2010. Thousands of families living near the lake, which is currently half-filled with sand, are facing eviction after the government in 2007 awarded the land to a local real estate developer Shukaku Inc for private developments. Residents are demanding between $15,000 to $20,000 in compensation to move out but the government would only agree to around $8500 per family. The firm has been filling in the lake with sand causing frequent floods at the residents' homes, which prompted many protests over the years. REUTERS/Chor Sokunthea
Villagers from Boeung Kak Lake help a woman (C) who fainted during a protest against local real estate developer Shukaku Inc. over unfair compensation, near Prime Minister Hun Sen's house in Phnom Penh October 1, 2010. Thousands of families living near the lake, which is currently half-filled with sand, are facing eviction after the government in 2007 awarded the land to a local real estate developer Shukaku Inc for private developments. Residents are demanding between $15,000 to $20,000 in compensation to move out but the government would only agree to around $8500 per family. The firm has been filling in the lake with sand causing frequent floods at the residents' homes, which prompted many protests over the years. REUTERS/Chor Sokunthea
People walk as Cambodian riot police try to disperse them during a protest against local real estate developer Shukaku Inc. over unfair compensation, near Prime Minister Hun Sen's house in Phnom Penh October 1, 2010. Thousands of families living near Boeung Kak Lake lake, which is currently half-filled with sand, are facing eviction after the government in 2007 awarded the land to a local real estate developer Shukaku Inc for private developments. Residents are demanding between $15,000 to $20,000 in compensation to move out but the government would only agree to around $8500 per family. The firm has been filling in the lake with sand causing frequent floods at the residents' homes, which prompted many protests over the years. REUTERS/Chor Sokunthea
People stand in front of Cambodian riot police as they protest against local real estate developer Shukaku Inc. over unfair compensation, near Prime Minister Hun Sen's house in Phnom Penh October 1, 2010. Thousands of families living near Boeung Kak Lake lake, which is currently half-filled with sand, are facing eviction after the government in 2007 awarded the land to a local real estate developer Shukaku Inc for private developments. Residents are demanding between $15,000 to $20,000 in compensation to move out but the government would only agree to around $8500 per family. The firm has been filling in the lake with sand causing frequent floods at the residents' homes, which prompted many protests over the years. REUTERS/Chor Sokunthea
A woman shouts at Cambodian riot police during a protest against local real estate developer Shukaku Inc. over unfair compensation, near Prime Minister Hun Sen's house in Phnom Penh October 1, 2010. Thousands of families living near Boeung Kak lake, which is currently half-filled with sand, are facing eviction after the government in 2007 awarded the land to a local real estate developer Shukaku Inc for private developments. Residents are demanding between $15,000 to $20,000 in compensation to move out but the government would only agree to around $8500 per family. The firm has been filling in the lake with sand causing frequent floods at the residents' homes, which prompted many protests over the years. REUTERS/Chor Sokunthea
People protest against local real estate developer Shukaku Inc. over unfair compensation, as they stand next to Cambodian riot police near Prime Minister Hun Sen's house in Phnom Penh October 1, 2010. Thousands of families living near Boeung Kak lake, which is currently half-filled with sand, are facing eviction after the government in 2007 awarded the land to a local real estate developer Shukaku Inc for private developments. Residents are demanding between $15,000 to $20,000 in compensation to move out but the government would only agree to around $8500 per family. The firm has been filling in the lake with sand causing frequent floods at the residents' homes, which prompted many protests over the years. REUTERS/Chor Sokunthea

Cops break up Beoung Kak demonstrators in front of Hun Xen's mansion

Report by Den Ayuthyea, Radio Free Asia
Video by Uon Chhin

Boeng Kak Lake Residents' Protest Prevented

Report and Video by Uon Chhin, Radio Free Asia

Without any hope left Beoung Kak residents turn to deities to help them resolve their housing problems

Boeung Kak residents put a curse on the Shukaku Company (owned by CPP Tycoon-Senator Lao Meng Khin, one of Hun Xen's crony) on 12 June 2009 (Photo: Sophorn, RFA)

19 Sept 2010
Khe Senorng
Radio Free Asia
Translated from Khmer by Soch
Click here to read the article in Khmer

Boeung Kak lake residents in Phnom Penh city organized a ceremony to pray to the angels (Tevoda) and deities to help them resolve their housing problems, after their expectation on human justice became hopeless.

About 50 residents of Boeung Kak, Srah Chork commune, Chamcar Mon district, Phnom Penh city, organized a ceremony on Sunday morning at the location of the land dispute, they prayed to the deities to help them after their complaints against the Shukaku, Inc. Compay sent the authorities went without receiving any answer.

Mrs. Hang Seng, a Boeung Kak resident, who came to the ceremony said: “My Boeung Kak is simply flooded out! They just wanted to kick the residents out! Now, listen up, brother, we went to the city hall, they do not resolve this issue for us, and everywhere else, nobody is resolving this issue. How could they resolve this issue? After all, they are the one who set up the master plan and they are the one who sold the lands.”

The residents indicated that the Shukaku Company pumped sand to fill Boeung Kak Lake and this led to flooding of the housing in that area during this entire week. The situation brought hardship on the housing dwellers and roads are also flooded leading to difficult road traffic, but local and city hall officials refused to resolve this problem.

Boeung Kak representatives ask Phnom Penh City Hall to resolve flooding problem

Report by Kher Sonorng, Radio Free Asia
Video by Mom Sophon

SRP MPs visit citizens living under flood from Boeuk Kak filling by Hun Xen's crony Lao Meng Khin

Flooding near Boeung Kak Lake area

Report and Video by Mom Sophon, Radio Free Asia

New report warns of Boeung Kak flooding

A young boy plays in the abandoned, partially submerged house of his former neighbour in one of the Boeung Kak communities worst affected by the filling-in of the lake. Since local developer Shukaku Inc began pumping sand into the lake late last year, hundreds of families have been forced to abandon their homes. (Photo by: SOVANN PHILONG)

THURSDAY, 12 MARCH 2009
Written by Sam Rith and Sebastian Strangio
The Phnom Penh Post

Group calls for municipality to take action to mitigate coming loss of natural catchment areas caused by lake's filling.

THE reclamation of Phnom Penh's Boeung Kak lake will increase the level and frequency of wet season flooding in areas in the city's north, according to a technical report released Wednesday.

The Boeung Kak Area Drainage and Flooding Assessment report, prepared by a team of Australian drainage and flooding engineers in 2008, found the filling of the lake for a 133-hectare commercial and housing project would eliminate a major rain catchment area, leading to
"significant impacts on property" in areas adjacent to the lake.

"While the lake is a closed system with little catchment contribution beyond the lake itself, the proposed development area is large enough to generate large volumes of run-off," the report stated.

"The anticipated increase in peak flood levels and flood frequency that would result without mitigation is considered unacceptable."

The team of engineers, commissioned by local housing rights group Sahmakum Teang Tnaut (STT), conducted hydraulic modelling of the
Boeung Kak area, concluding that the rain runoff from the proposed development would overwhelm the current poor drainage infrastructure in Russey Keo district to the north.

"The areas of greatest impact are immediately to the north of the Boeung Kak area on both the east and west sides of the railway embankment, and approximately 1.5 kilometres to the north," the report said, adding that significant increases could also stretch as far afield as the proposed Camko City development in Russey Keo.

‘Vague' assessments

The drainage assessment report claims the August 2008 Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA) completed by project developer Shukaku Inc "did not appear to be based on sound engineering", and that it included only "vague" plans for the construction of a 20-square-metre canal to mitigate the increased runoff.

It also states that City Hall's 2020 Phnom Penh Master Plan had not conducted the detailed hydraulic modelling needed to predict the drainage impacts of the city's expansion.

STT adviser Hallam Goad said the results were unsurprising to anyone who witnessed the chronic flooding in Russey Keo during last year's wet season.

"This report confirms what many have suspected - that the development at Boeung Kak is being undertaken without full regard to the environmental impacts," he said in a statement Wednesday.

Lao Meng Khin, the president of Shukaku Inc, could no be reached for comment Wednesday, but Phnom Penh Deputy Governor Mann Chhoeun rejected criticisms that the municipality's approach to the issue was insufficient.

He described the ESIA as an "inter-ministry" effort, which included input from the Ministry of Environment, Ministry of Public Works and Transport, and the Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction, among others.

"The Boeung Kak development plan will not have any impacts such as flooding," he told the Post Wednesday.

But Be Pharom, 56, a representative from Boeung Kak's Village 22, agreed with the study, saying that more and more villagers were losing their homes as the lake's reclamation continued to drive up water levels.

"The study is right. Other observers have also said that pumping sand to fill in the lake has created floods," she said.

"And during the rainy season, it not only floods around the lake, but also in other areas such as Phnom Penh Thmey, Russey Keo [and] Tuol Sangke."

Goad said he hoped the conclusions of the report - technically more detailed than anything released by the municipality - would force decision-makers to take action to mitigate the effects of flooding resulting from the Boeung Kak project.

"My impression is that the municipality is just not open for business when it comes to Boeung Kak," he said by phone.

"But if the report creates some discussion, they might have to do something about it."