Battambang City Clean Up Rounds Up Vagrants and Undesirables

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Battambang City Clean Up Rounds Up Vagrants and Undesirables

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Cambodia News, (Battambang Province): According to the information from Battambang Province Administration, on Wednesday night, August 3, 2020, city authorities started to prepare for Battambang's status as a heritage site and a clean ASEAN city, by removing vagrants from the streets.
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According to the plan of the Battambang administration and under the guidance of Mr. Sok Lu, the governor of Battambang province, Mr. Pheng Sithy, the mayor, and the police authority have gathered people with insufficient or crazy minds, crackheads, drug addicts, glue addicts, homeless people who sleep in the garden, and have taken them to Prenana Education Center this morning, August 4, to have their cases processed.
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Mr. Pheng Sithy continued that today the authorities have collected a total of 150 people from the streets in the Battambang conservation area, to take them firstly to Battambang police station for the doctors to check the COVID-19 virus. Then those who are found with drugs should be taken to a rehabilitation center or a drug center: either the National Rehabilitation Center (Keo Pos) at Phum Rithy, Keo Pos Commune, Steung Hav District, Sihanouk Province or to the center of the Ministry of Social Affairs. In addition, those with mental health problems should be taken to medical centers in central province, while the homeless will find a new place to live or be transferred to a centre with vocational training or other skills to provide their livelihood.
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The Battambang Provincial Administration is working to make the city more beautiful, attracting national and international tourists, as well as preparing to compete with the clean ASEAN city.

Reminder: The Battambang clean sweep started with removing the billboards: post555772.html#p555772
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The vocational training centers here are pretty much slave labor camps

I seriously hope some of them are able to get away..
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Keeping the addicts busy is the way to deal with them, when planning to make them quit drugs.
Crazies, everything seems to miss,
Lazies, well, one should be allowed to be lazy, it's not always such a motivating world...whatever

I wonder up to which amount the said categories goes, when it comes to barangs, and also for Chineses
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CEOCambodiaNews wrote: Thu Aug 04, 2022 3:51 pm Image
Cambodia News, (Battambang Province): According to the information from Battambang Province Administration, on Wednesday night, August 3, 2020, city authorities started to prepare for Battambang's status as a heritage site and a clean ASEAN city, by removing vagrants from the streets.
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According to the plan of the Battambang administration and under the guidance of Mr. Sok Lu, the governor of Battambang province, Mr. Pheng Sithy, the mayor, and the police authority have gathered people with insufficient or crazy minds, crackheads, drug addicts, glue addicts, homeless people who sleep in the garden, and have taken them to Prenana Education Center this morning, August 4, to have their cases processed.
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Mr. Pheng Sithy continued that today the authorities have collected a total of 150 people from the streets in the Battambang conservation area, to take them firstly to Battambang police station for the doctors to check the COVID-19 virus. Then those who are found with drugs should be taken to a rehabilitation center or a drug center: either the National Rehabilitation Center (Keo Pos) at Phum Rithy, Keo Pos Commune, Steung Hav District, Sihanouk Province or to the center of the Ministry of Social Affairs. In addition, those with mental health problems should be taken to medical centers in central province, while the homeless will find a new place to live or be transferred to a centre with vocational training or other skills to provide their livelihood.
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The Battambang Provincial Administration is working to make the city more beautiful, attracting national and international tourists, as well as preparing to compete with the clean ASEAN city.

Reminder: The Battambang clean sweep started with removing the billboards: post555772.html#p555772
Such cleansing will be more than welcome in Phnom Penh.
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" Mr. Pheng Sithy, the mayor, and the police authority have gathered people with insufficient or crazy minds, crackheads, drug addicts, glue addicts, homeless people who sleep in the garden "


Hope there aren't too many ex-pats affected :)
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More cleaning in Battambang:

72 Youths Detained In Suspicion of Drug Use and Trafficking In Battambang City
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Cambodia News (Battambang Province): At 11:00 pm on August 8, 2022, the police rounded up and detained 72 young people, male and female, who were hanging around in groups in Battambang city public parks, who were suspected of drug trafficking.

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However, after police tested all 72 suspects for drug use, only 5 men and 1 woman tested positive for drugs, and 2 others were arrested as drug dealers.
The rest of the young people were educated by the authorities and released to go home.
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More round-ups of undesirables took place recently in Battambang as part of the "clean city" drive:
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Cambodia News, (Battambang Province): This morning, Monday, August 16, 2022, General Pich Saren, the inspector of Battambang Police, announced that he directed the cooperation between the professional forces of the Anti-Drug Office of the State Commissioner Battambang Province, Provincial Armed Forces, Provincial Department of Social Affairs, City Administration, and the Provincial Administration in order to evacuate drug users and homeless people, including 21 women, who were living on the streets in Battambang old town.
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Cambodia News (Battambang): Between 14 and 15 August 2022, in search for illegal use of drugs, the Battambang Provincial Unity Command collected 177 men and women in some public places.
Police said that during the operation, a total of 146 men and 31 women, were taken to the Battambang City Police Inspectorate for drug testing.
After completing the drug testing, the people arrested were sent to the Center of Hope medical centre to receive treatment to stop using drugs.
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Battambang Authorities Continue to Clean Up the City
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Cambodia News, (Battambang): Mr. Leang Veasna, Governor of Battambang City, on March 9, 2023, led the Unified Command to continue to collect homeless people, people with dementia, drunkards, and drug addicts, to be educated and rehabilitated at the Social Welfare Center.
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The mayor of Battambang said that the campaign is to follow the instructions of Mr. Sok Lou, the provincial governor, under the care to improve the beauty and hygiene of the city, especially the elimination of mental disorders and people using drugs in public places.

Colonel Pich Saren, Municipal Police Inspector, confirmed that a total of 45 people, including seven women, were taken off the streets yesterday, and were sent to the Rehabilitation Center in Rattanak Mondul district and also to the Department of Social Affairs in Sangke district, Battambang province.
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There is no place for the homeless, and no pity for the mentally ill, as the local authorities clean the streets of Battambang of any undesirable signs of poverty. All this, apparently, because of the bid to include Battambang as a UNESCO heritage site: post555772.html#p555772

July 19, 2023
Battambang resumes campaign to remove homeless and mentally retarded from streets to improve beauty of city
The Battambang Municipal Unity Command has resumed its campaign to round homeless people – especially those suffering from mental disorders – from the streets of the city.
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The campaign, under the leadership of Mr. Leang Veasna, Governor of Battambang City, aims to bring the homeless people for rehabilitation at the Samchat Center, Department of Social Affairs, Battambang Province.

Mr. Leang stated that the campaign to collect homeless people is in accordance with the direct instructions of Mr. Sok Lou, the provincial governor, who is paying attention in accordance with the principles of the Royal Government to improve the city’s beauty by eliminating homeless people, mental disorders and insufficiency in public places.
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