Fresh roundup of homeless

In the first major Phnom Penh “street sweep” of 2015, 80 people in Daun Penh district were rounded up by force in the early hours of yesterday morning, with many sent on to the city’s notorious Prey Speu Social Affairs Centre.

Daun Penh District Governor Kouch Chamroeun said mixed security forces rounded up the group, which included “49 homeless people, 19 sex workers and 12 drug users”.

“We collected them from the places they stay – along the street near the pagodas, and in the parks,” he said.

Chamroeun said the roundup was part of an effort to “prepare public order”...

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