UN visits evictees, site of $3.8B tourism project
About 50 families gathered under a timber roof here Sunday among muddy fields granted to them as compensation after China’s Union Development Group (UDG) began to turn their coastal homeland into a $3.8-billion tourist mecca. The families, who now live in timber houses dotting the barren land 20 km from the coast, were expecting a visit from Surya Subedi, the Nepalese academic on his 11th tour of Cambodia as the U.N.’s human rights envoy, who was apparently curious about their grievances. ...
Mech Dara and Alex Willemyns
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