Boeng Kak residents detained for looking at list
Three residents of Phnom Penh’s Boeng Kak lake community were temporarily detained by police and had a camera and phone confiscated yesterday while trying to take pictures of a list posted outside the Srah Chak commune office in Daun Penh district. Two of the three are among the nearly 800 Boeng Kak families expecting to receive land titles following a sub-decree signed by Prime Minister Hun Sen in August promising to let residents inside a 12.44-hectare stretch of land keep their homes. Prior to the prime minister’s order, the families were facing eviction to make way for a Chinese-backed real estate project headed by ruling party senator Lao Meng Khin…
