Day: January 30, 2009

UN criticises forced evictions in Cambodia

  GENEVA, Jan 30 (Reuters) – The Cambodian government is forcing tens of thousands of poor people from their homes in a grave breach of human rights, a U.N. investigator said on Friday. Raquel Rolnik, United Nations special rapporteur on…

Cambodia to deploy 30,000 police for upcoming local election

   PHNOM PENH, Jan. 30 (Xinhua) — The Cambodian government plans to deploy 27,133 police forces to safeguard the commune councils election in all its towns, districts, cities and provinces in May, national media said on Friday.     The deployment aims to…

Forced re-location of the poor in Phnom Penh

From a friend in Phnom Penh comes this eye-witness report of events last Saturday morning: Some of us were out jogging before dawn near the centre of the city, only to run into hundreds of men marching in formation, with…