They start with the walls, peeling off tin sheets or wooden planks from the homes that make up the lakeside slum of Boeung Kak. They carefully remove windows or old wooden doors – anything they can use to rebuild. When they’re finished, all that remains is a pile of bricks and some aging floor tiles.
For weeks, Im Bunnary has looked on in fear at what has become a daily occurrence in parts of this central Phnom Penh community – neighbours tearing apart their homes.
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