Musing from the City of a Thousand Lakes

Land Eviction in Cambodia

In Cambodia, Development, Social Injustice, Society and Politics on Wednesday, December 13, 2006 at 3:14 PM

This issue has been hot since I was Cambodia. I’ve seen articles and reports about it but never had I seen such live pictures.. Pictures truly paint a thousand words. It pains me to see how bad our poor people have suffered and how serious social inequality is getting. O my poor Cambodia! O my dear people!

How could things be so disheartening…? When will all of such social injustice end? :(

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  1. This is a shame for our government.

  2. Everytime I come to think about it, I feel so listless. It’s hurt and every fly I’m on above our dreadfully drought land, I am stabbed in the heart. Mongkol, I hear myself screaming sadly the same expression you’ve made there.

  3. We all shared the same feeling. I’m so torn. Speechless

  4. [...] Mongkol links to videos of land eviction in Cambodia and says “It pains me to see how bad our poor people have suffered and how serious social inequality is getting”. The Cambodian government is ignoring the interest of the people and clearing land eying the investment it might bring in. Preetam Rai [...]

  5. so sad for poor cambodians evected to new location without schools, marketplace, and on so.

  6. [...] This issue has been hot since I was Cambodia. I ve seen articles and reports about it but never had I seen such live pictures. … O my poor Cambodia! O my dear people! How could things be so disheartening ? When will all of such social … – more – [...]

  7. [...] and Evictions in 2006. In the absence of citizen-filmed footage of evictions, blogger Mongkol linked to a TV documentary showing the extent of forced evictions in [...]

  8. [...] and Evictions in 2006. In the absence of citizen-filmed footage of evictions, blogger Mongkol linked to a TV documentary showing the extent of forced evictions in [...]

  9. i am SO glad this is in english. i will share this with my friends on facebook… i will post this on groups, write notes. what else can i do? does the UN know about this?

    please tell me.. what else can i do?