Left: The offices of the 7NG development company occupy the land that was formerly home to Chamkarmon district’s Dey Krahorm community, as seen on Tuesday. Top and bottom right: The houses that occupied the area in December 2008, before they were bulldozed the following month in a violent, pre-dawn eviction. A lawyer for 13 families from the embattled community appeared in Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Tuesday in a bid to secure compensation from 7NG for his clients. (Photo by: Heng Chivoan)Wednesday, 05 May 2010
By May Titthara
The Phnom Penh Post
A LAWYER for 13 families who were evicted from the capital’s Dey Krahorm community last year appeared in Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Tuesday in a bid to secure compensation from the development company that cleared their land and now occupies the site.
Te Chamnan, the lawyer for the 13 families, said his clients were called to the court to present information in their case against the 7NG development company, whose employees dismantled 144 homes in the Dey Krahorm community last year in one of the city’s most widely publicised forced evictions.
“The 7NG lawyer repeatedly asked me to clarify why these 13 families did not receive a home at the relocation site, and he said they will check this problem again,” Te Chamnan said.
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