Boeng Kak Lake is now to be home to... the police.
Posted: Sat Jun 28, 2014 1:42 am
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/city- ... ood-62576/
Because police buildings make WAY more sense for the city to build than silly things like hospital clinics and schools...A military police official confirmed Thursday that his unit’s new headquarters were being built in the heart of Phnom Penh’s restive Boeng Kak neighborhood, meters away from the homes of some of the country’s most high-profile anti-eviction activists.
About a half-dozen armed military police officers were standing guard on Wednesday morning over a plot of land being cleared in the neighborhood while construction workers prepared wood planks across the narrow road.
Most of the officers at the scene declined to speak with reporters, though one of them claimed that the land was being prepared for new homes for local families.
On Thursday, however, Daun Penh district military police chief Thorng Piseth said that the land was being prepared for a new headquarters for his officers, to replace their current building located catty-corner from the Buddhist Institute.