Bulldozers will not move us, families insist
More than 100 families living in Koh Kong’s Kiri Sakor and Botum Sakor districts are on the clock, with an official government decree demanding they vacate their land in less than two months or face the bulldozers of the Chinese firm slated to build a new hydropower dam in the area.
Required to permanently relocate by September 20, residents were notified in mid-July that Union Development Co Ltd’s preliminary development of the area is scheduled to start on October 1.
In an official notice signed by representatives of a government inter-ministerial committee, governors of Botum Sakor and Kiri Sakor are instructed to clear residents off the land by the late September date. …
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