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The Cambodian camps, 2001–2005
Between 2001 and 2005 the nearest country stopped being a refuge and became a holding area. Thousands crossed into Cambodia after the February 2001 crackdown; UNHCR opened sites in the border provinces; the sites were closed, protection officers were confined to Phnom Penh, and people were sent back. This is how that happened, in order.
The dams: Yali Falls and the rivers
The Se San and the Srepok run west out of the highlands into the Mekong. From 1993 they were dammed. At Yali Falls alone, 6,782 people were moved — three in five of them indigenous — into houses of thirty-nine square metres with no kitchen and no latrine, onto land that was promised and never arrived. Downstream, in Cambodia, people drowned in r...
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