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True Faces of Dey Krahorm
By: Licadho Canada
Posted: Nov 21 08
Witnessed: 2296 times
Regions: Cambodia
Issues: Housing
Tags: Cambodia, displacement, eviction, Licadho, Phnom Penh
Since 2005, the area of Dey Krahorm in Phnom Penh Cambodia has resisted violence and intimidation in order to keep from being forcibly evicted by the 7NG company.
Forced eviction is one of the most widespread and systematic human rights violations occurring in Cambodia today. Despite legal protections, at least 30,000 residents of the capital city Phnom Penh have been forcibly evicted, and approximately 150,000 Cambodians throughout the country are at risk of forced eviction.
Over the past forty years, Cambodia has experienced forced eviction and forced displacement on a large scale. During the early 1970s, rural populations in Cambodia, hoping to escape the overflow of the USA and Viet Nam war, moved en masse to Phnom Penh. Much of the urban population under the Khmer Rouge rule of the late 1970s then fled to rural areas. An estimated 2 million Cambodians died during this period, which also saw the destruction of the country’s infrastructure, including maps and land registration documents.
Many in the capital did not survive under the Khmer Rouge. As Phnom Penh became repopulated in the 1980s, primarily rural populations moved into houses and onto land in an unregulated manner. Although private property rights were not recognized, occupation rights continuously gained currency.
The Government in 1989 instituted property rights for rural and urban areas and, in the same year, property rights were added to the Constitution.
Today, particularly in urban areas, settlements have been cleared to make way for “beautification” schemes and development projects also have resulted in displacement. A growing number of cases of forced eviction and land-grabbing take place in rural areas as competition over land and natural resources on which rural communities depend is on the rise. Forced eviction is a reality facing many throughout the country.
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