Land Evictions Reaching Tragic Proportions: Activist
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| Sia Phearum, executive-director of Housing Rights Task Force in Cambodia on "Hello VOA" Thursday. (Photo: VOA Khmer) |
Friday, 27 January 2012
Sok Khemara, VOA Khmer | Washington, DC
“When I don’t have the money, I just wash my feet and take my children to bed.”
Government officials must take more action to prevent forced eviction, with more and more families ending up in inferior relocation sites and a high number of children dropping out of school as a result, a housing advocate said Thursday.
Sia Phearum, executive director of the Housing Rights Task Force, told “Hello VOA” people are being forced off land they earned through “backbreaking” work, and that promises made by politicians during the 2008 national election are going unfulfilled.
“If we continue tragedies like the issues of Borei Keila or Dey Krahorm, we will receive sin or remorse,” he said. “You as the authority, the government, from the vote of the people, you haven’t fulfilled your own task to solve the problem for them.”
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