Firm Compensates Jarai After Ruining Graves
A Vietnamese rubber company in Ratanakkiri province’s O’Yadaw district yesterday agreed to pay $4,000 in compensation to an ethnic Jarai community whose traditional graveyard was bulldozed by the firm last week, local officials said. During a meeting at the Paknhai commune police station, representatives of the Day Dong Yoeun company promised to give the community $4,000 for a traditional ceremony to appease their ancestors, said Romash Svat, a representative of roughly 300 Jarai families living in the commune’s Lom village. …
