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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