The Dey Krahorm site today
Employees of 7NG Group play football at the site of the former Dey Krahorm community in Chamkarmon district yesterday evening. Srey Chanthou, managing director of 7NG Group, said in June that the company was constructing an exclusive gym for its employees. “All 7NG Group staff will be free to play different kinds of sports: football, tennis, volleyball, etc. But we won’t allow other people to come in,” he said. He also indicated that there was no clear development plan in place for the rest of the site. PHOTO: WILL BAXTER
A man from the Dey Krahorm community salvages a bed after police and construction workers employed by 7NG forcibly evicted the 144 families remaining at the site. PHOTO: HENG CHIVOAN
Relocated to the outskirts
Va Savoeun, a former Dey Krahorm resident who is now chief of the Pthas Khiev community, sweeps rubbish into a fire yesterday near a makeshift home at the relocation site provided for Dey Krahorm evictees in Kandal province’s Ponhea Leu district. The families were given 4-by-6-metre plots of land, on which they have built makeshift shelters of wood, mud, tarpaulins and corrugated tin.
REPORTING: MAY TITTHARA; PHOTO: WILL BAXTER
via Khmer NZ
Thursday, 02 September 2010 15:00 May Titthara
ON January 24, 2009, police and construction workers levelled the Dey Krahorm community in Chamkarmon district and drove out its residents. The community’s former site – and the residents themselves – have come a long way in the 18 months since.
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