Protesters pushed back from World Bank Office
In what is becoming an increasingly popular – and coordinated – protest tactic among Phnom Penh’s dispossessed, several women took off their shirts and bras during a demonstration over land rights that briefly turned violent near the World Bank yesterday. About 100 protesters, most of them women, pushed against a barricade of police twice their number before they could reach the bank’s offices on Norodom Boulevard. The police struck back, injuring at least six of the protesters…
Khy Sovuthy