On the morning of Thursday, October 10,
2013, more than 800 community members, media and other civil society
representives peacefully gathered at Wat Phnom in Cambodia’s capital to
celebrate World Habitat Day. Around 10:00 am, hundreds of monks, land
communities and their families and reps from unions, associations and
NGOs marched to the Phnom Penh Municipality to deliver a petition to
resolve land disputes and stop forced evictions. More than 200 mixed
police in riot gear attempted to prevent the people from marching.
After heated negotiations, demonstrators delivered the petition to the
PP Municipality but they were unable to deliver the 2nd petition to the
Ministry for Land Management, Urban Planning & Construction.
View the gathering photos on: https://www.facebook.com/licadho/photos_albums