Police block Beoung Kak protesters

18 June 2013
The Phnom Penh Post
Gender / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Women in development
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More than 100 police and security guards, including riot squad members, were deployed to the capital’s Boeung Kak lake community yesterday to block a protest that, at times, involved only three shouting women.

About 50 members of the Boeung Kak community tried to march from Village 22 in the capital’s Daun Penh district to the Council of Ministers to demand authorities overturn fellow Boeung Kak activist Yorm Bopha’s guilty verdict and resolve their years-long land dispute.

Police and municipal security guards placed roadblocks across the main exits from Boeung Kak at about 7am, preventing activists converging on the Peace Palace, where representatives from more than 120 countries have been convening as part of the UNESCO 37th World Heritage Committee meetings. ...

Chan Putisak, a representative of Boeung Kak’s Village 1 community said yesterday he had wanted to tell the foreign delegates that he had yet to receive a land title. ...

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