Cambodia’s Sambor Dam plans cause controversy as public left in the dark

Mongabay
Mar 16, 2017, 3:52 pm200 pts
KRATIE PROVINCE, Cambodia — “If the dam is built, it will be like before, in the time of the Khmer Rouge when we all had to move,” said Plau Saret, 44, of Domrae Village on the Mekong River island of Koh Tnaot, right next to the proposed Sambor Dam site. In 2011, she and her husband built a new house.…

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