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| Starting from around 6:30 am, homeowners looked on in tears as some 60 workers with axes and hammers began dismantling wooden houses. (Photo: AP) |
Chun Sakada, VOA Khmer
Phnom Penh Thursday, 31 March 2011
“In the name of the authorities, I am very happy to carry this out.”
City authorities began the destruction of more than 40 houses in Phnom Penh’s Russei Keo district on Thursday, after the residents lost a court battle to a landowner.
Starting from around 6:30 am, homeowners looked on in tears as some 60 workers with axes and hammers began dismantling wooden houses and heavy machinery began knocking down concrete houses.
The destruction stems from a 2007 Supreme Court ruling in favor of a single landowner, Khun Haing, a former minister for the ruling Cambodian People’s Party, who claims legal title to some 8,000 square meters in the northern Phnom Penh neighborhood.
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