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Cambodia's lust for rubber drives ethnic group from land

For generations, the indigenous Bunong were famous as the great elephant keepers and masters of the forests in eastern Cambodia. They called the fertile, rolling hills of their ancestral homeland “meh ne,” or mother – a source of food, livelihoods and self-identity. ...

Malcolm J. Foster and Denis D. Gray
http://www.ctvnews.ca/world/cambodia-s-lust-for-rubber-drives-ethnic-group-from-land-1.2834335

Bunong villagers upset at industrialist’s silence

Ethnic Bunong communities in Mondulkiri’s Bousraa commune will soon hold protests that will call on French industrialist Vincent Bollore to honour promises his firm made during a meeting with them in Paris in October, a representative has said. His Bollore investment group is a shareholder in ...

Kevin Ponniah
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/bunong-villagers-upset-industrialists-silence

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