City Hall security guards tear up petition at land rights protest

6 May 2014
The Cambodia Daily
Cities / Civil society / Government / Government services / Infrastructure / Land / Land policy and administration / Land tenure and land titling / Ministries and other national bodies / Phnom Penh / Social development / Urban administration and development / Urban sanitation infrastructure / Urban water and sanitation infrastructure
Boeng Kak / Borei Keila / Pa Socheatvong / Phnom Penh City Hall

About 80 activists from Phnom Penh’s Borei Keila and Boeng Kak communities protested outside City Hall on Monday morning, but were confronted by municipal security guards who prevented them from delivering a petition to the governor. Sar Soun, a representative of families from the Borei Keila community who have been living in temporary shelters since they were evicted two years ago, said protestors simply wanted to tell municipal governor Pa Socheatvong that uncollected garbage was making living conditions in the area intolerable. … When community representatives tried to gain entry to City Hall to deliver the petition, security guards quickly snatched the documents and confiscated loudspeakers before pushing and kicking the crowd of mostly women and elderly protesters into the road.

 Ben Sokhean
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