Borei Keila evictees will be given a lift back to vote

A cart passes yesterday through a relocation site established in January for people evicted from the Borei Keila community. The relocation site is in Kandal province, about 40 kilometres outside Phnom Penh. Photograph: Heng Chivoan/Phnom Penh Post

 

“I will try one more time to vote for the CPP, because I want to know if they will construct a brick house for me as they promised or not,” he said.

Thursday, 31 May 2012
May Titthara
The Phnom Penh Post

Borei Keila evictees will have a chance to revisit the area they were forcibly evicted from this Sunday when authorities truck them back from the makeshift tents of their relocation site for a special purpose – to vote.

Touch Khorn, a representative of the Borei Keila community villagers who were evicted from their homes in Phnom Penh in January, said yesterday that their one-time Veal Vong commune chief, ruling party member Keo Sakal, had agreed to provide two trucks for the ballot.

“On June 3 at 6:00am, the trucks will go to take us to Phnom Penh,” he said.

The 133 families that were evicted by private security forces hired by development firm Phan Imex will have to travel some 50 kilometres from their Srah Po village relocation site in Kandal province’s Punhea Ley district.

Most are reluctant to divulge their political preferences, but despite the experience of seeing their homes bulldozed, some maintain they will stick with the Cambodian People’s Party.

Mekong River water level on 27 September 2011

Chea Sim orders the Phnom Penh CPP chapter to win at least 6 seats at the upcoming election

Monday, June 2, 2008
Everyday.com.kh
Translated from Khmer by Socheata

Chea Sim, the CPP president, pushed CPP activists in Phnom Penh to wrestle at least 6 of the 12 MP seats in Phnom Penh city. In a speech given on 31 May during a visit at the CPP headquarters in Chamcar Mon, Chea Sim directed the CPP in all the 7 districts in the city of Phnom Penh to leave behind the 4 seats it now has at the National Assembly and to grab 6 or more seats in the upcoming election. Chea Sim said that the CPP was successful in the past 3 mandates already, and that during the 4th legislative mandate, it will win even more because there are thousands of new SRP members who now support the CPP instead. Therefore, if efforts are equally made in the 7 city districts during the 4th legislative mandate election, then (the CPP) would be able to grab even more than the 6 seats (it plans to obtain). Phnom Penh city now has 12 seats at the National Assembly, and, during the current legislative mandate, the CPP obtained only 4. At the national level, the total number of seats at the National Assembly is 123, 73 of which are in the CPP’s hands. Chea Sim ordered the CPP to grab a total number of 81 seats in the upcoming election.