Former Borei Keila Residents Protest Apartment Rejections
About 40 evictees form the Borei Keila community blocked a road in Phnom Penh’s Prampi Makara district for nearly two hours yesterday, protesting a letter written by municipal governor Kep Chuktekma stating that they had no right to state-provided housing. According to a copy of the letter dated Feb. 21, Mr. Chuktema wrote to the Council of Ministers in response to an SRP request to investigate the eviction of more than 300 families from the community on Jan 3 by armed forces and the Phanimex company. “Some villagers are not elegible to recieve buildings from the state because… there are no documents,” Mr. Chuktema wrote. …
