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Around 100 Phnom Penh residents facing expulsion from their homes gathered in front of City Hall on Wednesday, delivering a petition to make the city “eviction free.” The demonstrators came from eight communities inside the city, warning in their petition that 10 percent of Phnom Penh’s residents have been evicted over the last 20 years, thanks to the rising value of urban real estate. Some 150,000 people have been displaced in that time, they said, including forced evictions where their homes were bulldozed. The petition calls for city leaders to stop forced evictions that present a bad image Continue reading →