2.42am. Police set up road blocks on both road entrances to Dey Krahom.
2.43am. Police blockade at the entrance to Group 78. New Australian embassy in the background
Police blockade at the entrance to Group 78.
2.44am. Police looking down towards the National Assembly from Group 78 entrance.
2.45am. Human rights observers at the entrance of Dey Krahom.
2.45am Early morning at Dey Krahom - waiting for the police to make their first move
2.59am. Top left corner - sillouette of the police blockade of Dey Krahom, Sothearos Blvde side
3am. Early morning waiting for the eviction
3.02am. Prayers for protection
3.15am. 'Breakers' - hired thugs from previously evicted communities.
$10 plus gas money - what these men earned for participating in the demolitions
5.47am. Human rights observer watch the movements of police and 'breakers'.
5.45am. The alarm goes up to rouse the community to defend their homes.
6.00am. A hasty barricade of shell-fish carts is created to defend against the coming riot police and 'breakers'
Children, women, men all watching the gathering forces against them
“Don't fence us in before a solution is agreed on”
6.15am. Military police line up along the southern side (Russian Embassy) side of Dey Krahom.
Military police. The MP wearing the blue helmet is carrying an AK-47 assault rifle.
Red Team. The 'breakers' were deployed into three groups for the three sides of Dey Krahom.
Day light brings on the storm of forced eviction
Center left: riot police huddle behind shields as residents hurle chunks of rock and bricks at them and the breakers.
6:28am. A tire burns while police fire tear gas and rubber bullets(?).
6.31am. A Licadho lawyer (black helmet) watches the riot police take up positions along the market.
6.33am. An excavator rips into the large tree and spirit house, preparing to destroy the coffee house - the main center of resistance
6.35am. The front of the Chenda's coffee house is destroyed in seconds. A bull dozer moves in to demolish other buildings.
The residents of this house were given no time to pull out their belongings. TV sets, motor bikes, clothes, everything.
6.36am. 'Breakers' and riot police move into to quell resisters, who continue to lob rocks and bricks.
6.41am. The last of Yoleng's homes crumbles as the bull dozer takes out the foundation.
6.41am. Villagers, observers and a neighbouring community watch helplessly.
6.43am. 'Breakers' swarm over homes like ants. Using hand axes, mallets and planks of wood they tear homes apart.
6.46am. The 'breakers' move quickly from one house to the next despite the protests of their owners.
6.49am. A fire-truck hoses the rubble down as residents clamber over the debris for their belongings.
6.50am. Military and riot police watch over the demolition work.
6.51am. Residents scurry to reclaim their belongings from what was the coffee house.
6.57am. 'Yellow team“ works from the north end of the community. The white coats with caps are 7NG employees overseeing the demolition.
7.08am. Once victims of forced evictions, the 'breakers' are eager to show their power by taking turns hacking down a house.
7.10am. A photo-journalist is escorted from the roof of neighbouring “bo-deng” building block by military police.
7.12am. The contents of a family's house are pilled where the house once stood.
7.21am. “Bo-deng” residents watch over the demolition - surely wondering when their time would come.
7.25am. The two women on the right watch as their home is pulled apart. Their mother, hysterical, picks up rocks to throw at the 'breakers'.
7.25am. The roof of the community theatre starts to twist and tangle as the supporting pylons are pulled out by hand.
7.42am. A home lays waiting for it's final moments.
8.14am. A bulldozer driver goes beserk when residents pelt him with bricks. Chenda is rushed to hospital unconscious after the dozer injures her.
8. 28am. A Cambodian wearing “US ARMY” camoflage clothes. Fake?
8.29am. The bulldozer driver continues to operate, despite having sent someone to hospital unconscious.
8.30am. The excavator moves on a few final homes left standing while residents carry what belongings they can to waiting trucks.
8.42am. It is done. Dey Krahom no longer exists.
