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Cambodias great land grab
2013-05-20 03:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bangkok Post: Ask Sreap Samoen where are the communal grazing lands? Where can local villagers fish and grow crops? The 50-year-old woman with a weather-beaten face points into the distance and says: "It's all gone. The company has it now." She's standing near a cluster of tiny shacks in Cambodia's remote north, hidden in the Dong Nai rubber plantation owned by the Vietnam Rubber Group (VRG). "Many people have lost their land," she says before wandering off. For more than a decade villagers have pestered and...
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