http://www.dianaswednesday.com/2007/12/wednesday-night-1346/ Where the world comes together Sat, 30 Aug 2008 01:38:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 http://www.dianaswednesday.com/2007/12/wednesday-night-1346/#comment-3298 Diana Thébaud Nicholson Sun, 27 Jul 2008 22:48:24 +0000 http://www.dianaswednesday.com/2007/12/wednesday-night-1346/#comment-3298 <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/27/world/asia/27cambodia.html?ref=world" rel="nofollow"><strong>In Cambodia, Land Seizures Push Thousands of the Poor Into Homelessness</strong></a> “Expropriation of the land of Cambodia’s poor is reaching a disastrous level,” Basil Fernando, executive director of the Asian Human Rights Commission in Hong Kong, a private monitoring group, said in December. “The courts are politicized and corrupt, and impunity for human rights violators remains the norm.” With the economy on the rise, land is being seized for logging, agriculture, mining, tourism and fisheries, and in Phnom Penh, soaring land prices have touched off what one official called a frenzy of land grabs by the rich and powerful. In a report in February, Amnesty International estimated that 150,000 people around the country were now at risk of forcible eviction as a result of land disputes, land seizures and new development projects. These include 4,000 families who live around a lake in the center of Phnom Penh, Boeung Kak Lake, which is the city’s main catchment for monsoon rains and is being filled in for upscale development. In Cambodia, Land Seizures Push Thousands of the Poor Into Homelessness
“Expropriation of the land of Cambodia’s poor is reaching a disastrous level,” Basil Fernando, executive director of the Asian Human Rights Commission in Hong Kong, a private monitoring group, said in December. “The courts are politicized and corrupt, and impunity for human rights violators remains the norm.”
With the economy on the rise, land is being seized for logging, agriculture, mining, tourism and fisheries, and in Phnom Penh, soaring land prices have touched off what one official called a frenzy of land grabs by the rich and powerful. In a report in February, Amnesty International estimated that 150,000 people around the country were now at risk of forcible eviction as a result of land disputes, land seizures and new development projects.
These include 4,000 families who live around a lake in the center of Phnom Penh, Boeung Kak Lake, which is the city’s main catchment for monsoon rains and is being filled in for upscale development.

]]> http://www.dianaswednesday.com/2007/12/wednesday-night-1346/#comment-1747 Diana Thébaud Nicholson Tue, 08 Apr 2008 20:23:28 +0000 http://www.dianaswednesday.com/2007/12/wednesday-night-1346/#comment-1747 <strong><a href="http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=41856" rel="nofollow">CAMBODIA: Property Boom Forces Evictions of Urban Poor </a></strong> Andrew Nette PHNOM PENH - Sitting in a wooden house in the urban poor community of Dei Krohome, Touch Ratha recounted a tale of intimidation, secrecy and the blurred line between police, government officials and the private company that she says has been trying to evict her and her neighbours. CAMBODIA: Property Boom Forces Evictions of Urban Poor
Andrew Nette
PHNOM PENH - Sitting in a wooden house in the urban poor community of Dei Krohome, Touch Ratha recounted a tale of intimidation, secrecy and the blurred line between police, government officials and the private company that she says has been trying to evict her and her neighbours.

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