By: Ryan Schlief, Posted: Jan 25 09

Regions: Cambodia

Issues: Housing

Tags: Cambodia, eviction, housing, Licadho, Licadho Canada

WITNESS partner LICADHO, along with Platapus, LICADHO Canada, Bridges Across Borders and Karl Bille shot powerful footage from the Dey Krahorm forced eviction.

(Thumbnail image courtesy of Peter Harris)

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Another report from an activist in Phnom Penh:

When i went to LICADHO Saturday afternoon, I was talking with a young university student who is speaking at the end of the slideshow on Ka7 saying this:

"My mother… she wants to die, my father, he wants to die too, he wants to live in
his house. I don't know where I can go, I don't know what I can do. Why the government do like this? What do they think? What are they thinking? Why they do like this? We live here for a long time…"

At LICADHO, he was saying the same thing. He also showed us footage he took of the destruction of his house - he recorded it for one hour on his phone camera. He was showing us on his phone, then said he wanted to give us the footage to use. He started a sentence, "I have a cable to connect my phone at my house..." Then he realized and became silent.

Dey Krahom is gone now, it looked like a war zone, a humanitarian disaster scene, a place hit by an earthquake...

I never saw anything like that.

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Join the Facebook group "Cambodia Evictions Update" and view the slideshow of photos taken at the Dey Krahorm eviction, Saturday.