(Photo: DR, Cambodge Soir Hebdo)28 Nov 2008
By Nhim Sophal
Cambodge Soir Hebdo
Translated from French by Luc Sâr
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Police shoo away Licadho’s investigators and curious onlookers after a house was half sunk into the lake.
On Thursday 27 November, cops prevented Cambodian and foreign investigators from Licadho to meet with a family living on Boeung Kak Lake which is currently being filled in for a major real estate development project.
In the evening of Wednesday to Thursday, Sun Ratanak’s home on stilt sunk into the lake water. Chea Nara (a Licadho investigator) said that he and his colleagues were prevented from meeting the family of the victims. “We can only get into the location if we ask the authorization from the Phnom Penh governor,” Chea Nara reported.
The filling of the lake gave rise to a confrontation between the developers – the Shukaku Inc. Company and the CPP tycoon-senator Lao Meng Khin – and the residents. The latter refused to accept the compensation given to them in exchange for them to leave the location, claiming that they are too little.
On Thursday 27 November, cops prevented Cambodian and foreign investigators from Licadho to meet with a family living on Boeung Kak Lake which is currently being filled in for a major real estate development project.
In the evening of Wednesday to Thursday, Sun Ratanak’s home on stilt sunk into the lake water. Chea Nara (a Licadho investigator) said that he and his colleagues were prevented from meeting the family of the victims. “We can only get into the location if we ask the authorization from the Phnom Penh governor,” Chea Nara reported.
The filling of the lake gave rise to a confrontation between the developers – the Shukaku Inc. Company and the CPP tycoon-senator Lao Meng Khin – and the residents. The latter refused to accept the compensation given to them in exchange for them to leave the location, claiming that they are too little.
