A large-scale, Chinese-financed hydroelectric dam in northeastern Cambodia, completed in 2018, has undermined the lives and livelihoods of thousands of Indigenous and ethnic minority people, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The Lower Sesan 2 dam, one of Asia’s widest dams, flooded large areas upstream of the confluence of the Sesan and Srepok Rivers, two tributaries of the Mekong River.
Read the full article: https://www.hrw.org/news/2021/08/10/cambodia-chinas-belt-and-road-dam-rights-disaster
Further reading:
https://www.ft.com/content/731211dd-bd9a-4a07-8bf1-f46fe88fc8a5
https://www.rt.com/news/531661-cambodia-china-dam-human-rights/
https://www.globalconstructionreview.com/news/chinese-funded-hydropower-dam-cambodia-rights-disa/
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/dam-08132021191857.html
https://www.voanews.com/east-asia-pacific/china-and-cambodia-urged-rethink-dam-compensation-packages
https://www.ucanews.com/news/compensation-review-urged-for-people-displaced-by-cambodian-dam/93641#