As company clears land, Bunong villagers fight for ancestral home

18 July 2017
The Cambodia Daily
Economic land concessions and plantations / Ethnic minorities and indigenous people
Bunong ethnics

The land concession overlaps the site of the Bunong community’s old village, their spirit forest and their burial grounds—religiously significant areas that, according to Bunong beliefs, are not to be disturbed or logged at the risk of incurring the wrath of local spirits. …

 Brendan O’byrne
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/as-company-clears-land-bunong-villagers-fight-for-ancestral-home-132609/

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