Monday, 20 September 2010

Without any hope left Beoung Kak residents turn to deities to help them resolve their housing problems


Boeung Kak residents put a curse on the Shukaku Company (owned by CPP Tycoon-Senator Lao Meng Khin, one of Hun Xen's crony) on 12 June 2009 (Photo: Sophorn, RFA)

19 Sept 2010
Khe Senorng
Radio Free Asia
Translated from Khmer by Soch
Click here to read the article in Khmer


Boeung Kak lake residents in Phnom Penh city organized a ceremony to pray to the angels (Tevoda) and deities to help them resolve their housing problems, after their expectation on human justice became hopeless.

About 50 residents of Boeung Kak, Srah Chork commune, Chamcar Mon district, Phnom Penh city, organized a ceremony on Sunday morning at the location of the land dispute, they prayed to the deities to help them after their complaints against the Shukaku, Inc. Compay sent the authorities went without receiving any answer.

Mrs. Hang Seng, a Boeung Kak resident, who came to the ceremony said: “My Boeung Kak is simply flooded out! They just wanted to kick the residents out! Now, listen up, brother, we went to the city hall, they do not resolve this issue for us, and everywhere else, nobody is resolving this issue. How could they resolve this issue? After all, they are the one who set up the master plan and they are the one who sold the lands.”

The residents indicated that the Shukaku Company pumped sand to fill Boeung Kak Lake and this led to flooding of the housing in that area during this entire week. The situation brought hardship on the housing dwellers and roads are also flooded leading to difficult road traffic, but local and city hall officials refused to resolve this problem.

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