Controversial dam

WEDNESDAY, 12 MAY 2010

phnompenhpost

May 12,2010 at 9:15 pm

Photo by: Courtesy of the documentation centre of Cambodia

Labourers coerced by the Khmer Rouge regime work to construct the Pram mouy Makara dam in Kampong Thom province’s Santuk district. Roughly 500 Santuk residents staged a protest on Tuesday to decry the dam’s 2009 closure, claiming it has led to flooding of their farmland.