Cambodia for Sale

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  Àngel García, Spain

he estate business is evicting 30 thousand people in the capital of Cambodia, Phnom Penh,
and the existence of the lake Boeung Kak itself may be in danger. The League for the
promotion and defense of the human rights in Cambodja (LICADHO) denounces that 4000
families will be expelled from their homes as a result of the cession -for the next 99
years- of the rights of 133 acres of the shore of the lake and of the lake in the
Cambodian company Shukako Inc itself, approved of in February of 2007 for the Prime
Minister Hun Sen in exchange for 79 million dollars to give a beginning to a great project
urbanization that it contemplates commercial and industrial areas.

Awards 2009 Grant of the National Council for Culture and the Arts of the Generalitat of Catalonia.

2008 Scholarship in Photography and Journalism Workshop of Albarracín, led by Gervasio Sanchez.

2007 Scholarship for Young Photojournalists CLIC’07, Generalitat of Catalonia.