People sit along railroad tracks outside their shanty homes in the Boeng Kak slum area of Phnom Penh (AFP/File, Nicolas Asfouri)
ADB backs under-fire campaigners in Cambodia
PHNOM PENH (AFP) — The Asian Development Bank on Friday defended two land rights organisations in Cambodia that have been rapped by the government for criticising an ADB-funded railway redevelopment project.
The attacks on the two groups, who monitor the relocation of families living near the railway tracks, come as the government is preparing a controversial law to regulate the activities of campaigners and charity workers.
"ADB views recent developments with the utmost seriousness," the bank said in a statement after the local Sahmakum Teang Tnaut (STT) charity was slapped with a five-month suspension and international group Bridges Across Borders Cambodia (BABC) was given a government warning over a critical report.
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These people will take advantage on their government once more...Yep, let asking for more $$$$$$$$$$! Otherwise, we will protest!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!give us money and new car, new bangalow villa....Yes!
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