September 17, 2011 - Yesterday witnessed the most violent forced eviction of Boeung Kak lake residents to date. Early in the afternoon, a hundred "anti-riot" intervention police officers and Daun Penh district security guards positioned themselves nearby homes of lake residents. Two excavators, protected by the armed group, proceeded in destroying homes of families arbitrarily disqualified from the 12.44 hectares of land given to the remaining lake families. Later in the afternoon, as the exca...
Through Cambodia's infamous Boeung Kak Lake land grab, this LICADHO video takes a look at three incidents showing the impacts on women within communities affected by forced evictions. These abuses are perpetrated in the name of "development".The incidents, three out of many, occurred in 2011.Music taken Amelie movie soundtrack under Fair Use Clause. This video is for educational purposes.
February 6, 2011 - This LICADHO production offers a glimpse into community activism to resist land evictions throughout Cambodia The video was shown during the land grabbing workshop leading up to the World Social Forum in Dakar, Senegal in February 2011.
This video is a Khmer reproduction of "Community Resistance" video. Stories of Change shows a brief look into the resistance strategies of Cambodian communities facing forced eviction. Stories of Change was originally produced for a LICADHO partner workshop.
April 21 2011, more than 100 Boeung Kak villagers gathered at Phnom Penh Municipal Office, demanding a resolution to their land dispute. Mixed police forces use violence against villagers, arresting 11 people including women and two children. (Rough cut)
More than 200 forest community representatives and friends of Prey Long forest gathered together in Phnom Penh today to call for the protection of Prey Long from destructive business interests. Prey Long belongs to all Cambodians and its protection should be returned to the hands of the communities that have preserved the forest for generations. (to protect Prey Long forest go to http://www.change.org/petitions/help-save-cambodias-prey-lang-forest)
This LICADHO production offers a glimpse into community activism to resist land evictions throughout Cambodia The video was shown during the land grabbing workshop leading up to the World Social Forum in Dakar, Senegal in February 2011.
Boeung Kak residents face violence and arrests for resisting forced eviction. Venerable Sovath faces threats of arrest and defrocking for standing with the community.
In recent years, hundreds of thousands of Cambodian families have either been forcibly displaced or are currently under the threat of forced eviction today. Big business and the Cambodian government (often the same people) explain forced evictions as a necessary part of development while international donors continue to pour money into the government's pockets in the name of development. Cambodia's Destructive Development is the beginning of a one-year project to engage the North American gene...
On January 23, 2009 at 2am, mixed forces surrounded Dey Krahorm - the community with the longest, resistance to unlawful eviction. Just after 6am, more than 250 armed forces and 300 breakers attacked the villagers in a brutal show of force, despite their legal entitlement to their land. This video is a compilation of footage captured by human rights monitors on the inside. Video footage courtesy of Platapus, LICADHO, BAB, and Karl Bille