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| Villagers from Boeung Kak lake march through the main street, wearing a portrait of detained Yoam Bopha, Buddhism, poster and flags to mark the World Women's Day in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Friday, March. 8, 2013. Bopha was arrested by local authorities after her protest over compensation for her loss of her house due to a new luxury housing development. The protesters demanded the release of Bopha. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith) |
09.03.2013
By Heng Reaksmey, VOA Khmer
PHNOM PENH - More than 300 protesters from the Boeung Kak and Borei Keila forced evictions gathered on Friday, holding a demonstration to mark International Women’s Day and to demand the release of a land activist from jail.
The demonstration moved about the city, as participants called for the release of Yorm Bopha, who was sentenced to three years in jail in December on charges related to violent demonstrations.
“I appeal to the Cambodian government to respect women’s rights and release her,” said Tep Vanny, a leading activist against the Boeung Kak lake development project, which has displaced thousands of families from the Phnom Penh neighborhood.
The land disputes at both Phnom Penh neighborhoods have galvanized a core group of demonstrators—many of them women—that authorities have been unable to reach an agreement with, leading to numerous demonstrations, many of them violent, over the last five years.
No clashes were reported Friday.
Many demonstrators dressed up as prisoners as part of the protest. One of them, Song Srey Leap, said the court system is being used to punish activists.
Song Srey Leap, who is also against the Boeung Kak development, said housing activists are experiencing “all kinds of pressure” to stop demonstrating.
7 comments:
change change and change and it must be now or never. NATO is comming to town very soon. Say goodbye to the Hun Dynasty. This dynasty has blood in their hands.
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DO SOME CHNGE
I have the most respected for my wife, then my girlfriends, I wished cambodia men should do it.
It is the nature of human to kill each other for the good of the majority and without killing there would be no progress in human society!
Cambodian people must embrace and accept the concept that the killing is good for the betterment of Cambodian society!
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so let kill a hun sit hit the wall for good, because it will be much better for the whole country. a hun shit is very good at robbing our nation. a CPP clan is part of a VC bloodsuckers!!! I am sure they will pay for what they had done to our poor people. Without them, we are freeeeee like a bird in the flies. so change is needed for this moment. If not let NATO do all the work for us, since democray is everything in the west, and we won't let this regime go on and on forever. They done this to the middle east like gaddhafi, Hunsien, Syria Egype, Tunisia etc. No one is allowed to rule more than 30years, if so, it is known as a 'dictatorship style'. So, better give up now before it is too late.
If not, goodbye a hun dynasty and clan. Time is up and it is now or never. You better this warning seriously because with the international system, it is not a jok it is real. It will come with real action e.g. if word doesn't work, action will work.
like a bird flies in the sky*
it was the woman who gotten the man into trouble, why are they crying 'respect' now? still listening to the voice of the serpent!
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