Kep Chuktema, Mayor of Phnom Penh
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Kep Chuktema
Mayor of Phnom Penh (Cambodia)
The finalists for the 2006 World Mayor Award were chosen on the number of votes received as well as on the persuasiveness and conviction of supporting statements. Below we publish an representative selection of comments received about the mayor.Comment: The Mayor of Phnom Penh is a good policy maker for town planning, transportation, water supply and poverty reduction.
Comment: Mr Kep Chuktema is a city leader who has achieved his aims pf rebuilding, developing the city, which had been destroyed under the Pol Pot regime, to the new city comparable to other cities in the developed world.
Comment: I want to mention that Kep Chuktema has forcefully evicted over 3000 urban poor families from the center of Phnom Penh during his tenure. He has been quoted in the national papers as saying that the urban poor "pollute our city's beauty". Most recently he evicted roughly 1,500 urban poor to a location without any basic services: No running water, bathrooms, health clinics, schools, etc. Literally dropped off over a thousand families into a barren ricefield during the rainy season. The UN Special Rapporteur on Housing (Miloon Kothari) has described the trends occurring in Phnom Penh as approaching that of an 'apartheid city'. He has employed police and soldiers to carry out evictions, armed with electric batons, guns, gas masks, and riot gear. The last eviction he used roughly 1,000 such 'security' forces, carried out the eviction at four in the morning, and refused to allow UN monitors, NGO human rights monitors, or the media from observing the evictions.
Comment: I visited Phnom Penh one year ago. That was great. Phnom Penh is the most amazing city I’ve ever visited but I had some problem with some sidewalks in your city. I.sometimes had to walk on the road. I want you to check this out. I hope you will make improvements for your city and for me to visit again next year. Thanks.
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