Housing Rights Task Force (HRTF), Sahmakum Teang Tnaut (STT), Equitable Cambodia, Cambodian League for the Promotion and Defense of Human Rights (LICADHO) and Licadho Canada condemn the unjustified and violent response to a peaceful demonstration by Boeung Kak residents and call for the immediate release of the 13 detained women.

On the morning of May 22, some 18 families of Village 1 in Boeung Kak arrived at the sand dunes covering their homes in the lakeside village. Equipped with wood, one family attempted to erect poles at the location of their destroyed home. Soon after, however, police arrived at the site trying to confiscate the wood and prevent the family from demarcating the boundary of their submerged house.

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Condemnation of Unjustified & Violent Response to Peaceful Demonstration by Boeung Kak Residents

(Source:LICADHO)