Still in a temporary home, years after eviction

Sun Ny, 60, says evictees in Dangkor district often sleep four people to a bed, and that illness is common due to poor sanitation. (Photo by: Will Baxter)

Former residents of Dey Krahorm sit beneath the sun-baked metal roof of a temporary structure in Dangkor district’s Damnak Trayeung village, where 58 families have been forced to live in squalid conditions since their eviction in July 2007. A representative of the families said they were hoping for better housing from developer 7NG. Meanwhile, a hearing at Phnom Penh Municipal Court in a case involving 13 other families evicted from Dey Krahorm was postponed Monday. (Photo by: Heng Chivoan)

Tuesday, 25 May 2010
By Mom Kunthear and May Titthara
The Phnom Penh Post

Frustration builds amid court delays as Dey Krahorm families seek relocation

THE lawyer for 13 families seeking relocation housing from the developer 7NG after being violently evicted from the Dey Krahorm community in January 2009 was summoned to Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Monday, only to learn that a hearing in the case had been postponed because company representatives had failed to appear.

Meanwhile, hundreds of villagers who were evicted from the same central Phnom Penh community in 2007 – and who have been living in unsanitary conditions in Dangkor district ever since – said Monday that they plan next week to seek intervention from Prime Minister Hun Sen in their separate row with the company, which they say has left them homeless for nearly three years.

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