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Cambodia: Boeung Kak residents meeting stopped by authorities
August 27, 2010 COHRE today expressed concern at measures taken in recent days to clamp down on peaceful protests in Cambodia.

On 23 August, security forces disrupted a meeting of some 500 residents of the Boeung Kak lake community at the National Institute for Education in the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh.

Residents had gathered to discuss problems with ongoing flooding in their area and government plans to forcibly evict them from their homes without adequate compensation.  Continued…
Police stop protests in Phnom Penh(PHOTO: COHRE)
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