Appalling Plight of Cambodia's Evictees (2013)
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- Опубліковано 11 січ 2025
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"Why have they done this to us? It would be better if they killed me!" Chan Meng yells. That was six years ago, when he was first evicted from his home. Now he lives in a motley shack the size of a garden shed, with half the roof missing and mosquito larvae writhing in the shower recess. Like many evictees Chan Meng has found himself in temporary accommodation and could be moved on again at any time. "They want to move us around like cats and dogs!" These days the parlous, unpredictable reality for thousands of Cambodia's poor is that of being forcibly evicted from their houses in the name of progress. Cambodia's land ownership was thrown into chaos when Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge extinguished private title. Now money and corruption are playing havoc with the country's attempts to bring back private property. There is one brave group known as the BK13 - 13 women - that are not prepared to let greedy developers take the very, very little they have. But with half a million residents forcibly evicted in recent years, it's an enormous fight they have on their hands. "Every time we leave we face arrest and they beat us. We don't know if they will use violence against us or if we will lose our lives."
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Cambodia like many other countries still has not learned from its past. The government like many others are still corrupt as ever . I pray for all the people that are suffering.
same shit happening in Laos. I hate the government. I hate that they don't care for their citizens.
Cambodia and Laos are screwed up today because of the United States. It all started with the Richard Nixon who illegally bombed both countries killing over 2 million civilian men women and children. Afterwards america installed the corrupt Pol Pat government and many other corrupt governments in both Cambodia and Laos. America depended of both countries to help us during the Vietnam war. After the war was over we turned our back while those that helped us were slaughtered. I'm not Cambodian, but I know their history because I know american history. To know the true history of america is to know and understand interactions with all our wars. America owes the people of both Cambodia and Loas. These countries suffer from corruption to this day because of our CIA.
Cambodia has suffered so much. So sad for everyone ☹️
What a cruel and evil government. So sorry for these people. Sad for these children.
This is evil these people dont deserve this plight! Its time for an uprising what are we waiting for
Thank you for covering this story. Expose the corrupt, greedy government
" it's a society that is full of darkness and not justice"...
Greed, corruption and evil have no respect for humanity!!!
Humans can be very cruel to humans!
anybody who's been there knows which country is responsible for flooding corrupt money into Cambodia and into politicians bank accounts. How one nation can dictate to another so overtly and openly is insane. Yet we do nothing.
I get paid $1400 a month, I want to stay in a tent right there & feed these fellows human beings!
If it's the last thing I do so help me god! Pore babies... we can do better...
If you behave badly towards any fellow human in your beautiful Country now, you will pay a great negative price for any corrupt greed.
ALL people are equal under one Creator now on our reclaimed peaceful shared divine Earth!.
It's time to rebuild our human race in and respect for all people on Earth!!!.
You are treating people like traitor's. Grow up human race please, it time to be conscious people, full of love.
No more violence is allowed anymore by any single person on Earth now!.
I love Cambodia I first went in 2007 and went back in 2014 amd wow I was shocked it’s changed so much so sad. I was in shianoukville in 2007 and the old market was burnt down over night so the government could build on the land. So so sad. What a beautiful country just ruined by greed amd corruption.
When I was kid, I thought I live in modern world but no. I live in the world with wars all over.
This is so sad and hard to watch. Gives me chills that are scary!!
As khmer people very hard see cambodia goverment to did a horrible to their own resident . Very sorry sad and sadness to all my khmer people. May god blessing them amen.
My birth country Cambodia has suffered so much. 😰
I would love to go there and help if i could. Im from the state of maine at the very top in the great north of the USA. And i can myself imagine what your people have been through. As i am American Indian. And our land was stollen. Im so sorry for the suffering of your country and your people.
As I am a Cambodian, I admit that our country is still living in corruption. Hospitality, industry, education, monetary, politics,... are still way behind amongst several countries around the world. Before I left Cambodia to study abroad in Australia, I had faced many difficult circumstances such as bribery. Particularly, for the public school students, they have to pay to their teachers every single day whilst the private school are drastically different. Every single year, we are doing charity to the schools in remote area. But I have one question, does charity improve our society or we should teach them manners and improve our education system more instead?
Believe me, I (also some students) had trouble making friends since my childhood.
Citizen over profit. Without citizen there will be no national pride. Shame on the government. Shame.
I called in scumbodia even tho iam khmer i refuse to be there because thats bs how they get treated
WE ARE ALL HUMAN BEINGS.....WHY HAVE THEY DONE THIS TO US????😪😪🙏🏻
this is so sad. 🙁
Cambodia and Laos are screwed up today because of the United States. It all started with the Richard Nixon who illegally bombed both countries killing over 2 million civilian men women and children. Afterwards america installed the corrupt Pol Pat government and many other corrupt governments in both Cambodia and Laos. America depended of both countries to help us during the Vietnam war. After the war was over we turned our back while those that helped us were slaughtered. I'm not Cambodian, but I know their history because I know american history. To know the true history of america is to know and understand interactions with all our wars. America owes the people of both Cambodia and Loas. These countries suffer from corruption to this day because of our CIA.
Starwood CHARLIE can you share some links proving this, I am interested in watching videos or reading about this.
This is disgusting 🤢😡
Worse than Cancer is the disease of GREED 😡
Maranatha 🙏🏽
This is very sad!
Awwwww that little girl crying @ 16.55 heartbreaking 😪
Do they give the displaced people any monetary compensation?
No, it’s still a communist government. The poor have nothing
At least its not about war or the communist dream. Its about progressing development in to modernity as in my country Indonesia
This is why I moved to other countries
I am a Cambodian
There is actually only one way to deal with this. ..... freeze those business men in Cambodia who have been known to behave like this. - sanction the country back to the Stone Age, and set in NGO to help those suffering now, let the rich ones loose their fortune if they did not get it ethically correct. .... after that - and after the goverment is put on notice and sanctioned, forbidden to travel, - then very soon things will change.
this is capitalism and democracy at its best. 8 percent growth in economy and you see the results.
This is Pol Pot, the sequel.
A bad day for us in the West is if the wifi is slow, worse still if its offline for an hour or 2, we get through it though.
Can you compare with Vietnam? It is impossible !
Awww these poor people have no life in this awful country
I so sorry for those people. Who did that to those peaple they Evil 😈 .I pray 🙏 and hope God will help bless Cambodian peaple .
i love their simplicity
It's the Cambodian government treating with its own citizens. No one else should interfere in a sovereign nation's internal affairs.
J Calhoun this is very ignorant of you.
The crook crony leaders like Hun Sen sell out to multi-national corporations speculating land prices up. It's globalization of poverty or New World Order. This sort of capitalist change imposed against the majorities will is happening world wide in many places. It results in many civil wars and then the big WW3 to set the stage for an oligarchy of world government globalist thieves.
Hun Sen is doing the right thing.
The poor may not see it but all these projects will benefit them an ensure a better future for their children.
That's right better for hun seen family, certainly not for Cambodian poeple
J Calhoun you insolent fool
The king has done nothing.
😇😇🌟😇😇
As a person that has had my car stolen twice by someone who got caught and was uninsured it is not a petty crime. Also it is something we don't want and I have no sympathy for them, they had a chance to live in a much better country and they blew it, now they don't like it and are complaining they are hard done by but I say good serves them right, now they are getting what they deserve and they don't like it.
What are you even talking about. That country is there home.
The poor are trashed everywhere. It’s so wrong and makes God weep.
🥺😥😢
It isn’t nothing to the but a money game! They don’t give a damn about the people. It’s the same way in the US
If they evict them and offer another land area to move to then at least make the private developer that got the 90 year lease to build a few hundred septic tanks or a basic septic system on the land in which the people.must move to. Also drill 15 to 20 water wells. These are.the very least as a part of the deal. A small effort would save them years of Battle but a small effort will never happen because they lack the spirit of God. They have no kindness within them. You can't convince a crooked arrow to fly straight
Cambodian imminent domain
😭😭😭😭
😱all over land land land
Kamilah akhtar all over home, home, home.
Land is home home & only home but you need land & foundations first & what is happening here is over land that is out of order .
the home is obviously on the land that they're being forced out of. it isn't just over any piece of land -- it's their land.
in india also
17:24 throwing rubbish from their apartments
That's just so Terrible!
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Those fools!! Trying to move the rock with words!! LOL. What a joke. You can't go to war being broke. If you wanna war? You better have unlimited income. That's the only way to win a war!!
She is suffering in rubbish--
Keep filming....
Chinese casinos
Shianoukville so sad news I say any more 💔
single mother no house but 5 kids..that very unresponsible....what about contracepeption....
lyanna lyanna well at first she had a house and 5 kids
Then they took it away from her
Contraception is not available in every country or every region in that country
@@covenawhite4855 contraception is available in almost every pharmacy supermarket or local store in Thailand vietnam and Cambodia no prescription the same plan B
I sorry but I have to say it. If this is your reality where you have no home, don’t know where to lay your head, and the government constantly kicking you out of your home then why bring kids into your terrible situation?! Kids are precious and everyone what’s a family, I get it, but your situation is chaotic and frightening to say the lease so why add more kids to the family?
Because if you’re poor you probably don’t have access to education or things like condoms and Cambodia is extremely conservative they don’t know any better so they have kids often by accident
so rich :)))
To bad old lady