Number of people evicted in Phnom Penh, Cambodia
As usual, i started my day today with news reading. The first piece i went trough today is The Cambodian Press Review by Multimedia Consulting & Development (MCD) which i receive daily. One of the headlines goes, “UN concnerned over forced eviction.” Two newspapers were reviewed: Khmer-language Khmer Sthapana and The Phnom Penh Post. They reported UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, who said on the World Heritage Day that all development must not affect the livelihood of the poor, expressing his concern over the evictions Cambodian were facing.
Andong village resettlement site in Cambodia lacks all basic amenities (Photo: Licadho)
What shocked me the most is the number of people evicted in Phnom Penh, the capital city of Cambodia. “According to a UN-Habitat report, as of Aug 2007, 15,000 Phnom Penh families had been relocated in the name of development.” The number is huge, isn’t it? Besides, not a single days in the past months have I gone without coming across land issues in the media, local or international. I then started wondering if this had happened in Japan or the United States too when their economy began to grow.
I went right straight to the Cambodia-based UN-Habitat website but found no such report the news review mentioned there. If you have one or know where to get it online, please post a link in the comment section of this post! Thanks in advance!
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