SOS Obama protests gain traction
Capitalising on recent worldwide attention to their plight, some 200 villagers who say they’ve been robbed of their homes and land staged a vivid and stylised protest yesterday aimed at President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, calling for intervention in Phnom Penh’s land-titling crisis. Boeung Kak and Borei Keila land activists, among others, took to the sand plateau of what was once a lakeside community bearing enormous “SOS” signs with the faces of US leaders in what they promise is the first of many protests timed to coincide with the ASEAN summit. …
