Former Boeng Kak activists protest at City Hall

29 April 2014
The Cambodia Daily
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Boeng Kak / Phnom Penh City Hall

About 50 residents evicted from Phnom Penh’s Boeng Kak neighborhood in 2008 and 2009 to make way for a senator’s real estate project once again protested in front of City Hall Monday to demand better compensation. … They are among some 3,000 families who were forced to choose between an $8,500 payout or free housing on the city’s outskirts in exchange for their central Phnom Penh homes, but have maintained that neither option was fair. …

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