Protests against a Vietnamese officials statement about the historical ownership of Kampuchea Krom – what is now Southern Vietnam – continued into a third day on Monday, as members of various groups allied against the Vietnamese presence in Cambodia gathered outside the Vietnamese Embassy on Monivong Boulevard. By my estimation, around 100 people were at […]
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Anti-Vietnamese Protests in Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Anti Vietnamese sentiment has been part of Cambodian culture for an exceedingly long time, and has only been on the rise since the hotly contested 2013 elections, in which the opposition CNRP party made animosity towards the Vietnamese, and their supposed colonial desires, a central tenet of its platform. Spearheaded by Khmer Krom minority groups, […]
Phnom Penh Municipality Defends Beating Up Own Citizens, Could Hire Better Copy-Writer
The Phnom Penh Municipality put up a post Sunday defending last Tuesday’s violent evictions of residents of the Borei Keila slum neighborhood – evictions where 30 villagers and 34 officers were injured in the ensuing fray. The Municipality claims that “many homes were provided to majority of them, and the small remaining has not accepted those homes […]
UN Dispatch Latest: Why Victims of Borei Keila Land Grabs are Protesting at US Embassy
Violent clashes and protests over a land-grabbing disputed have taken place in the heart of the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh this week, after a development company began to bulldoze the slum homes of 300 poor families. The destruction has prompted a wave of evictee protests at Western embassies, as victims hope to draw world […]
Protesters Sit-In Outside US Embassy for 2nd Day Over Borei Keila Land Grab
Remains of Borei Keila. Police have been posted at all entrances to keep out both journalists and NGO workers. Cambodian protesters sat-in outside the US Embassy for a 2nd day today, in a last-ditch attempt to draw international attention to their sudden and whole-sale eviction from their home in the Borei Keila slum. Mostly poor […]