Cambodian police have been using increasing force to thwart protesters fighting to hang on to their lands against developers looking to erect skyscrapers, shopping malls, and apartments in the Boeng-Kak Lake neighbourhood of the capital.<br /><br />Civil rights groups estimate that over the past decade, one in ten people in Phnom Penh alone have been forcibly evicted from their homes.<br /><br />Activists say the forcible evictions are a violation of their democratic rights.<br /><br />Al Jazeera's Steve Chao reports on the growing violence being used to force people from their homes.
