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Tuesday, June 09, 2009
Phnom Penh City Hall refuses to accept CCHR letter
CAMBODIAN CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS
Dear Sir/Madam,
The Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR) would like to inform you of the refusal of the Municipality of Phnom Penh to accept receipt of a letter from the CCHR informing them that CCHR President, Mr. Ou Virak, is currently outside Cambodia and is therefore unable to attend a meeting scheduled by the Municipality for the afternoon of Monday 8 June 2009. The meeting was arranged to discuss the CCHR’s intention to hold a public forum informing the 4,000 families facing eviction from their homes beside Boeung Kak Lake of their human rights as well as the compensation that is lawfully owed to them. Although the original invitation was limited to Mr. Ou Virak and was delivered to the CCHR on Friday 5 June 2009 after the close of business at 6.15pm, the CCHR has agreed to send a representative to the meeting in response to a request by the Municipality this morning to that effect.
The CCHR had intended to conduct a public forum on 12 June 2009 at the Lazy Fish Guesthouse which was this morning surrounded by police and closed on allegations that its business licence has expired. The CCHR has yet to establish the truth, or otherwise, of the grounds on which the guesthouse has been closed. In light of the persistent acts that have hitherto intervened to preclude the convening of the forum the CCHR is genuinely concerned that this peaceful and lawful forum will never be permitted to take place. Previous threats to the owner of the guesthouse and lakeside residents by the Village Chief of No. 6 Village, the village in which the CCHR intended to conduct the forum, are detailed in our press release of 2 June 2009 entitled “Authority’s Campaign of Intimidation to Prevent Peaceful Forum”. Notwithstanding preceding events the CCHR will today meet with the Municipality given our commitment to seeing that this public forum takes place.
For further information, please contact:
Mr. Chhim Savuth, Project Coordinator, 012 89 98 58
Mr. Suon Bunthoeun, Community Trainer, 012 48 35 46
The CCHR had intended to conduct a public forum on 12 June 2009 at the Lazy Fish Guesthouse which was this morning surrounded by police and closed on allegations that its business licence has expired. The CCHR has yet to establish the truth, or otherwise, of the grounds on which the guesthouse has been closed. In light of the persistent acts that have hitherto intervened to preclude the convening of the forum the CCHR is genuinely concerned that this peaceful and lawful forum will never be permitted to take place. Previous threats to the owner of the guesthouse and lakeside residents by the Village Chief of No. 6 Village, the village in which the CCHR intended to conduct the forum, are detailed in our press release of 2 June 2009 entitled “Authority’s Campaign of Intimidation to Prevent Peaceful Forum”. Notwithstanding preceding events the CCHR will today meet with the Municipality given our commitment to seeing that this public forum takes place.
For further information, please contact:
Mr. Chhim Savuth, Project Coordinator, 012 89 98 58
Mr. Suon Bunthoeun, Community Trainer, 012 48 35 46
Saturday, February 28, 2009
Riverbank [Group 78] Residents Fear Impending Eviction
By Pich Samnang, VOA Khmer
Original report from Phnom Penh
27 February 2009
Original report from Phnom Penh
27 February 2009
Sitting in front of his wooden house in Group 78 on the Tonle Bassac riverbank, Lem Sombo looks for new faces, in case a human rights official or a journalist comes to ask about the potential eviction of his community.
The 54-year-old coconut vendor said he ignores his business these days, as he is focusing on how to protect his community from a very likely eviction in a dispute with a local company.
“We don’t feel like we want to earn our living at present, as we fear that our houses can be smashed down at any time,” said the father of four children. “I myself stopped my business to find ways to make sure we would be appropriately compensated for our property.”
The Group 78 community, located near the National Assembly and the Naga World Casino, houses 146 families on 1,170 square metres. The residents have been a subject of eviction by the authorities since 2006.
The municipality has claimed that these people are living illegally on a private plot of land belonging to Sour Srun Enterprise, Co., Ltd.
Mann Chheoun, deputy governor of Phnom Penh, addressed the community on his visit there last week, saying the municipality had no role to move people out of their homes, but was acting as an intermediary.
“The company owns the land and wants to file complaints against the people for illegally living on its property, but the municipality asks it not to do so,” he said. “We asked the company to take on a win-win solution.”
Each family is given by the municipality a 5-meter-by-12-meter plot of land, together with $1,000 as a compensation, for their leaving their homes.
However, Khuy Chhom, the brother of Sour Srun’s president, Sour Pheng, who is in charge of dealing with the issue, told VOA recently that the company has had nothing to do with the Group 78 community, and already granted the disputed land to the municipality in 2007.
An appraisal letter issued by the municipality to the Sour Srun company, dated Nov. 30, 2007, and signed by Phnom Penh Municipality Governor Kep Chuktema, says the company granted the municipality 13,341 square meters of land to build two lanes of road in the developed riverbank area, one of which runs across the Group 78 community.
Kep Chutkema has just said it may not be the time to think about the eviction yet.
“Probably, the city has to solve the problem, but I have not thought of the problem,” he said.
So far, approximately 60 families have voluntarily agreed to accept the offer for fear of getting nothing if they refuse. Among them, more than 10 families resettled on a plot of land provided in Trapeng Angchhagn village, Trapeng Krosaing commune, Dongkor district, more than 20 kilometers away from the city center.
The new location has no sewage system. Inadequate water and electricity supply is also a problem for the resettlers, although a new primary school, a health center and a makeshift market can be seen in the area.
The 54-year-old coconut vendor said he ignores his business these days, as he is focusing on how to protect his community from a very likely eviction in a dispute with a local company.
“We don’t feel like we want to earn our living at present, as we fear that our houses can be smashed down at any time,” said the father of four children. “I myself stopped my business to find ways to make sure we would be appropriately compensated for our property.”
The Group 78 community, located near the National Assembly and the Naga World Casino, houses 146 families on 1,170 square metres. The residents have been a subject of eviction by the authorities since 2006.
The municipality has claimed that these people are living illegally on a private plot of land belonging to Sour Srun Enterprise, Co., Ltd.
Mann Chheoun, deputy governor of Phnom Penh, addressed the community on his visit there last week, saying the municipality had no role to move people out of their homes, but was acting as an intermediary.
“The company owns the land and wants to file complaints against the people for illegally living on its property, but the municipality asks it not to do so,” he said. “We asked the company to take on a win-win solution.”
Each family is given by the municipality a 5-meter-by-12-meter plot of land, together with $1,000 as a compensation, for their leaving their homes.
However, Khuy Chhom, the brother of Sour Srun’s president, Sour Pheng, who is in charge of dealing with the issue, told VOA recently that the company has had nothing to do with the Group 78 community, and already granted the disputed land to the municipality in 2007.
An appraisal letter issued by the municipality to the Sour Srun company, dated Nov. 30, 2007, and signed by Phnom Penh Municipality Governor Kep Chuktema, says the company granted the municipality 13,341 square meters of land to build two lanes of road in the developed riverbank area, one of which runs across the Group 78 community.
Kep Chutkema has just said it may not be the time to think about the eviction yet.
“Probably, the city has to solve the problem, but I have not thought of the problem,” he said.
So far, approximately 60 families have voluntarily agreed to accept the offer for fear of getting nothing if they refuse. Among them, more than 10 families resettled on a plot of land provided in Trapeng Angchhagn village, Trapeng Krosaing commune, Dongkor district, more than 20 kilometers away from the city center.
The new location has no sewage system. Inadequate water and electricity supply is also a problem for the resettlers, although a new primary school, a health center and a makeshift market can be seen in the area.
Thursday, June 28, 2007
Reactions to the directive for new license plates
Thursday, June 28, 2007
Everyday.com.kh
Translated from Khmer by Socheata
Everyday.com.kh
Translated from Khmer by Socheata
After the Phnom Penh municipality issued a directive for all vehicle owners to stop using their old license plates and change them to a new license place, the traffic police started stopping vehicles bearing the old license place. The police action met with angry reactions from vehicle owners. The public strongly criticized the police action by saying that the municipality issued the directive not even two weeks yet, and now it ordered the arrest of all vehicles bearing the black and white license plates already. The vehicle owners said that the black and white license plates are not illegal, but if the municipality orders them to acquire new license plates, it should make them pay less, after all, they paid for the black and white license plates once already. Keo Sarin, the director of the land transportation department of the Ministry of Public Works, said that the old license plates are not illegal, and they are still valid for use. Ung Chun Huor, the deputy director of the land transportation department, said that the old license plates identify all vehicles and they were issued by the government for the public to use. For now, it is not illegal to use them, and the law does not force anyone to change their old license plates for new ones, the change is made on a voluntary basis.
Tuesday, June 19, 2007
Phnom Penh municipality calls on vehicle owners to get new license plate
Tuesday, June 19, 2007
Everyday.com.kh
Translated from Khmer by Socheata
Everyday.com.kh
Translated from Khmer by Socheata
The Phnom Penh municipality issued an announcement on 15 June 2007 to all vehicle owners traveling in the public streets of Phnom Penh who bear all kinds of fake official license plates (K.P.M.) to quickly get a new (legal) license plate before the city will apply the law. This announcement stated that, currently, the municipality has observed that there are vehicles traveling in the city streets, and they do not have a license plate, or carry fake license plates, or carry old license plates. Therefore, the municipality asks the owners of these vehicles to hurry and apply for a new license plate starting from the day of the municipality announcement. Failures to follow the municipality directives will result in a temporary confiscation of the vehicle until the owners fulfill all the requirements to obtain a new license plate.
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