Report says Chinese-funded projects threaten a food crisis in the Mekong river delta

 

A Chinese-financed dam in Cambodia, part of Beijing’s Belt and Road Initiative, has been a human rights “disaster” for indigenous and ethnic minority communities, according to a report published on Tuesday.

Human Rights Watch claims the construction of the Lower Sesan 2 dam at the confluence of two tributaries of the Mekong, “washed away the livelihoods” of communities that relied on fishing, forest-gathering and farming when the areas upstream were flooded.

“The Lower Sesan 2 dam has profoundly harmed local communities, leaving them poorer and worse off,” the advocacy group said.

 

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Mekong River Commission may be interested if permitted.

Human life  and human rights figure very little in the Chinese Government! They have their agenda and don't care what, or who, they damage to achieve it.