Boeng Kak lake residents submit letter to Ban Ki-Moon

I would like to send you a letter to be submitted to H.E. Ban Ki-Moon, Secretary General of the UN on his official visit to Cambodia in the upcoming weeks. I, on behalf of Beong Kak lake area residents would like to request your help to submit this letter to his Excellency during his visit.

Attn: H.E. Ban Ki-Moon

Secretary General

United Nations

Subject: Request your Excellency’s intervention to Prime Minister Hun Sen to cease all activities involving the offensive and illegal eviction of people from their homes and lands and improving their houses and providing better and basic public services in the new relocated areas such as Andong village, Udong etc.

Based on the above subject, we, representing all communities facing illegal eviction due to unfairly and low-paid payment from the so-called “development” throughout Cambodia would like to present our right thumbprints as testimonies.

As to what mentioned, we would like to request your Excellency Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to help us intervening and facilitating urgently with the Royal Government of Cambodia, particularly with Prime Minister Hun Sen in order to strengthen various International laws, especially on the Convention on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the common recommendation n° 4 and including the convention on habitat rights and the offensive and forceful eviction.

At the meantime, we, representing Boeng Kak Lake area, want the Royal Government of Cambodia, particularly Prime Minister Hun Sen, to provide us 15 hectare of lands in Boeng Kak lake area so that the remaining people can continue to live there and we also want the Royal Government of Cambodia to issue us the legal land titles to all the remaining families or else we want fair and appropriate compensation as the market price, NOT AS LOW AS 8500USD per family or as very low as 1000 or 2000USD per family like the way they did to us now!

Please, your Excellency, kindly find in the attachment below, the right thumbprints of the representatives of all affected and victimized communities due to forceful and illegal eviction throughout Cambodia.

Phnom Penh, 6^th Oct 201
Representatives of Boeng Kak lake area
and many other areas