A year after hundreds of families’ homes were destroyed during a violent mass eviction at Borei Keila, more than 100 evictees are still living in stairwells and tents at the site.
Evictees, including two HIV-positive girls who returned to Borei Keila from a relocation site because they could not access enough medication, bathe, sleep and eat amid garbage and the thousands of flies that accompany it.
Tim Sakmony sits in the opening of a small sleeping area where she lives with her son and two grandchildren in the stairwell of an apartment block built for evictees from Phnom Penh’s Borei Keila community. Photograph: Hong Menea/Phnom Penh Post
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Source: (The Phnom Penh Post – January 03, 2013)
