Cambodia’s hidden legacy: landmines still a threat
INTRO: During nearly 3 decades of armed conflict, the Khmer Rouge, as well as the Vietnamese and Cambodian Armed Forces, laid an estimated 4 to 6 million landmines throughout Cambodia. The country is now at peace but the casualties continue. In 2010 alone, landmines in Cambodia injured a reported 215 civilians. 71 were killed. The...
Boeung Kak activists fear violence, arrests
INTRO: After intense pressure from the World Bank, the Cambodian government granted a small plot of land to a thousand families facing eviction from a lake in the center of the capital. The residents have been fighting a long battle with a government-linked development company that wants the land to build luxury housing. Already more...
