Cambodia: Making the poor homeless

Cambodia: Making the poor homeless

On 20 April 2007, 105 families of fishermen and beach vendors were forcibly evicted from Mittapheap 4 village, on the outskirts of the coastal town of Sihanoukville. They were made homeless. Some 150 members of the security forces, including military, shot in the air and on the ground, while demolishing and burning down houses and beating people with electric batons. Eighteen villagers, 13 men and five women, and two policemen were injured.