Black Monday rolls on, with fewer participants

Now entering its third month, the civil society-backed Black Monday campaign is showing signs of waning, with some land rights communities halting their weekly protests demanding the release of jailed human rights activists due to lack of funds.

Chray Nim – a representative of the SOS land dispute community which, in conjunction with a group of former Boeung Kak lake residents, had taken up the cause of the jailed activists – said the groups had been forced to suspend their participation, adding that she had been using her own money to fund their activities.

“I lost some regular customers such as military and police personnel, and civil servants,” Nim said. “They don’t come to my [laundry] shop like before, because I appeared in the Black Monday campaign.”

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