Hundreds protest Laos dam

31 March 2014
The Phnom Penh Post
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Yin Vuth, one of hundreds of Cambodians who protested against the Don Sahong dam over the weekend, said that if construction on the project in Laos goes ahead, the fish will disappear, and once the fish disappear, the dolphins will be next. “All we will have left will be water contaminated by the dam,” said Vuth, 53, who runs a dolphin-spotting tourism business about 2 kilometres from the construction site in Laos’s Champasak province, just over the border from Cambodia. About 400 protesters traversed the Mekong River on 50 or so longboats through Kratie province’s Sambor district and Stung Treng’s Thala Barivat district near the two countries’ border in the northeast. …

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