Evictees abandon new land

About half the Koh Kong province villagers relocated to make way for a Union Development Group resort project have abandoned the new homes provided for them, citing poor conditions and an inconvenient location, a village representative said yesterday. More than 1,000 families living in the province’s Botum Sakor district were ordered to leave their homes and relocate to shabby wooden houses along clay roads in a mountainous area, far from their places of employment and lacking waters in which they can fish, said representative Sok San, 56. …

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