Street Urchins Rounded Up Prior To Obama's Visit

[pdogg]

Children who sell goods on the street and beggars would be “collected” and taken to the Prey Speu social affairs centre – which has two-metre-high walls and lockable gates – for the duration of the upcoming ASEAN Summit, a City Hall spokesman said yesterday.

Such action was necessary to make a good impression on visiting leaders such as US President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin, Phnom Penh Municipal Hall spokesman Long Dimanche told the Post.

“We need to make good security for the foreign delegations that join the ASEAN meeting,” he said.

“We plan to collect beggars and children who are walking and selling goods and fruit on the street, and put them in Prey Speu.”

Those taken to the centre – from which about 20 women and children from Borei Keila escaped in January – would be provided with training in the centre and would be free to go when they pleased, Dimanche said.

“If the leaders from across ASEAN and the world see beggars and children on the street, they might speak negatively to the government.”

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012110959663/National-news/clean-sweep-for-asean.html

[xyzzy]

PP International Airport is right on the highway. They would need a big setback to create any distance.

[pdogg]

PP International Airport is right on the highway. They would need a big setback to create any distance.

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