Phnom Penh Post:

Nearly 20 families from the Borei Keila neighbourhood in the capital’s Prampi Makara district protested on Wednesday after the authorities brought two bulldozers that the families claim will be used to demolish the vacant buildings where they have taken shelter since being evicted in 2012.

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Expecting tragedy to happen and people can't do nothing about it...(especially if KOW choose to follow the way how PRC developed its own city)

September 18, 2019
Detained Borei Keila residents demand compensation over lost homes
Thirteen Borei Keila residents held for hours at the Prampi Makara district office on Monday as City Hall oversaw the demolition of a building they had used as a makeshift home are calling on the government to provide compensation.

Deputy Governor Mean Chanyada and City Hall spokesman Met Measpheakdey led the operation Monday morning, sealing off the area from human rights groups and journalists as authorities used four excavators to begin demolishing the building. Several zinc-roofed homes nearby were also demolished.

A dozen residents were released Monday evening, while one was held until yesterday morning.

Nhem Sreynith, one of the 12 residents released Monday night, yesterday said City Hall and district officials must compensate them for their home.

“We were all released, but we have not yet received compensation,” Ms Sreynith said, noting that the residents are demanding up to $2,000, but she only wants a home in Prek Pnov district’s Kork Roka commune, where some families were relocated to.

“I am hopeless because I did not previously send documents to City Hall,” she said. “I just want a house in Andoung village because I am very poor.”

The Borei Keila dispute began in 2003 after the government gave Phanimex, a construction company, the right to develop 14.12 hectares of community land.

Rights group Licadho previously said it was done under the government’s Social Land Concession programme. The company promised that it would take 70 percent of the land for investments, and develop the rest for homes for 1,776 Borei Keila families.

However, the company was only able to build eight out of 10 promised apartment buildings due to high costs, Licadho said.

In 2012, police and military forces evicted about 380 families from the area and relocated them to Kandal province and the outskirts of Phnom Penh.

District Governor Lim Sophea could not be reached for comment yesterday, but Chhuon Chhat, chief of Veal Vong commune, where the Borei Keila area is located, said some of the 13 residents have received compensation.
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