Notes - Hun Sen's Cambodia - page 283

8 “A City With No Smoke and No Sound”
1. Helen Grant Ross and Darryl Collins, Building Cambodia: 'New Khmer Architecture',
1953-1970 (Bangkok: Key, 2006), 28-9.
2. Borei Keila's use during the civil war was detailed during recent testimony at the Khmer
Rouge tribunal. See “'There Were So Many Wounded': Civil Party Recalls the Fall of Phnom
Penh,” Cambodia Tribunal Monitor , November 14, 2012. For its use under the Khmer
Rouge, see “Civil Party Details Political Education in Phnom Penh,” Cambodia Tribunal
Monitor , August 27, 2012.
3. “For Justice and State of Law (Public Disorder at Borey Keila),” Phnom Penh Municipality
statement, January 6, 2012.
4. Sahmakum Teang Tnaut, A Tale of Two Cities: Review of the Development Paradigm in Ph-
nom Penh (Phnom Penh, August 2012), 15-16.
5. “Resettling Phnom Penh—54 and Counting?” Sahmakum Teang Tnaut Factsheet, January
2013, 1.
6. John Pilger, Heroes (Cambridge: South End Press, 2002), 390.
7. Harish C. Mehta and Julie B. Mehta, Strongman: The Extraordinary Life of Hun Sen (Singa-
pore: Marshall Cavendish, 2013), 142.
8. Seth Mydans, “Stampede in Cambodia Leaves Hundreds Dead,” New York Times , November
22, 2010.
9. “Cambodia Plans Asia's Tallest Building,” Associated Press, September 2, 2010.
10. Simon Lewis and Phorn Bopha, “Phnom Penh's Wealthy Seek a Quieter Life,” Cambodia
Daily , April 16, 2013.
11. Ibid.
12. Sam Rith and Liam Cochrane, “Koh Pich: Island in a Stream of Greed,” Phnom Penh Post ,
June 3-16, 2005.
13. “Selected Impromptu Comments during the Groundbreaking Ceremony to Launch the Con-
struction of the Stoeng Meanjei Overpass,” Cambodia New Vision , November 26, 2011.
14. Global Witness has calculated that Pheapimex holds 1,333,931 hectares in logging and eco-
nomic land concessions. See Global Witness, Cambodia's Family Trees: Illegal Logging and
the Stripping of Public Assets by Cambodia's Elite (London, June 2007), 77.
15. “Aide-memoire on Development Process of Boeung Kak Area,” statement from Phnom Penh
Municipality, June 19, 2012. At http://www.phnompenh.gov.kh/news-aide-memoire-on-
development-process-of-boeung-kak-area-3024.html (accessed Mar. 2014).
16. “Cambodia: Release Mother Imprisoned for Housing Rights Activism,” statement from Am-
nesty International, June 3, 2013. At http://www.amnesty.org/en/news/cambodia-release-
mother-imprisoned-housing-rights-activism-2013-06-03 (accessed Mar. 2014).
17. “World Bank Board of Executive Directors Considers Inspection Panel Report on Cambodia
Land Management and Administration Project,” World Bank press release, March 8, 2011. At