For Justice and State of Law (Public Disorder at Borey Keila)
Friday, 06 Jan 2012 15:37
Phnom Penh Capital Hall would like to inform the public that
Borey Keila community has been approved by the Royal Government for onsite development since 2003, and the "Onsite Development Commission for the Poor" in Borey Keila Community had observed and collected data of those who had lived legitimately in the area. After that, many homes were provided to majority of them, and the small remaining has not accepted those homes at all and yet they demands for extra things.
Phnom Penh Capital Hall has several times announced to those people to remove their temporary shelters by themselves, but some have tried to prolonged the time to move out and at the same time was provoked to protest
or trigger other actions by some misbehavior propagating from some politicians in order to insert pressure on public authorities only to demonstrate that they deserve the full rights to obtain more homes from the government.
On the 3rd January 2012 at 7:00, a joined force of the onsite commission went to the community in order to give information to people who are not qualified to get homes from the government such as those who built shelters without proper permit or buy units from others, and the commission, through its observation, required those who already received homes but rent to other and demanded for another one to remove their temporary shelters immediately. But those people used violence in return against the commission members by throwing stones, gas and fish sauce bottles at them, and they also burned car tyres which injured 34 persons including Municipal Deputy Police Chief, Chief of District Armed Forces, Administration Deputy Director of 7 Makara District, Military Police Personnel, and some assents were also in jeopardized.
After that, competent forces took appropriate measures to handle the situation with those people and removed settlements which are not qualified as homes set by the Government. Doing so is to ensure the state of law and to do justice to more than a thousand families who voluntarily accepted homes from the Government in Borey Keila.
/// Videos show how authority and people were injured