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Sunday 12 September 2010

Landless! [Australia's SBS TV report on land eviction in Cambodia]

By David O'Shea
SBS TV, Australia

"They give our land to the rich, so they get richer, and evict us, so we get poorer", evicted resident.


The poor of Cambodia are literally being flooded out of their homes so high-rise developments can be built for the rich.

Over a thousand families have already been forced out of one site by rising water, threats and intimidation.

Video journalist David O’Shea first reported on Cambodia’s land grab in 2009, when people’s homes were being bulldozed around them, and now he returns to find little has improved.

He meets some people, who’ve been given unsafe housing with no running water and leaking sewage as ‘compensation’, and others who’ve been dumped on uninhabitable land.

And he meets the few who are battling adversity and big business to try and get justice.

WATCH - See the story on Dateline this Sunday at 8.30pm on SBS ONE.

EXTRA - Find out more about the work of campaign group, Bridges Across Borders, featured in David's report, and its backing of an internal investigation by the World Bank after complaints over its role in land-titling for affected residents.

REPLAY - David first reported on people being forced out of their homes by developers in our March 2009 story, Cambodia For Sale.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Go!! David, let truth be told. From Perth WA

Anonymous said...

Great job. Let's exposed the corruption and oppression in Cambodia. This is Hun Sen's policy which is to steal from the poor and give it to the rich so they can get richer. Shame on you Hun Sen.