Cambodia: Forced eviction

Index Number: ASA 23/009/2007
Date Published: 22 November 2007
Categories: Asia And The Pacific, Cambodia

At around 3 am on 2 November 2007, 300 members of the security forces were deployed around the village of Chong Chruoy on the eastern outskirts of Phnom Penh. Within hours they had forcibly evicted the 132 families who had been living there.