Underwater: Human Rights Impact of a Chinese Belt and Road Project in Cambodia | Human Rights Watch

Read the report: https://www.hrw.org/report/2021/08/10/underwater/human-rights-impacts-china-belt-and-road-project-cambodia(Bangkok, August 10, 2021) - A large hydroelectric dam in Cambodia, completed in 2018 and funded by the Chinese government, has seriously damaged the livelihoods of thousands of indigenous and ethnic minorities. Neither the company responsible for the project nor the Chinese or Cambodian governments have adequately compensated losses or otherwise mitigated the effects of the dam. You have to do that now. However, the report also reveals that China's belt-and-roads funding is unsupervised, allowing amoral or unscrupulous corporations and local governments to undertake massive projects like this one that displace thousands without due process, causing immense undue damage. China needs to reform its funding and ensure oversight to prevent such damage in the future.

For an interview on the devastating impact of Lower Sesan 2, one of the widest dams in Asia, on the Cambodian Mekong Basin and the lives of thousands of people whose villages were underwater, see:
https://www.hrw.org/news/2021/08/10/left-fish-too-small-sell-cambodias-mekong-river-basin

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