country for sale
Adrian Levy and Cathy Scott-Clark of The Guardian report on the single most devastating phenomenon happening to Cambodians now in Country for Sale.
Sang Run was out in his boat at 7am when disaster struck his village. He arrived back at 11am to find bulldozers had flattened his home and those of the 229 families who lived beside him. He heard from neighbours that it had happened in an instant. Uniformed men, sent in by governor Say Hak, used electric batons to chase terrified residents from the burning ruins; three of Sang Run’s neighbours were knocked unconscious. Village Number One - a mundane name that failed to capture the beauty of its uninterrupted sea views and vegetable gardens that ran to the beach - had been erased.
Posted on Sunday, April 27, 2008 at 10:09AM
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