A farmer cuts sugar cane at a plantation of Srei Ambel, Koh Kong, Cambodia. Thousands of people have been forced off their land to make room for sugar production, activists say.
photo: thomas cristofoletti/IRIN©
(IRIN) PHNOM PENH, May 12, 2013 - Song Kong, a 56-year-old farmer in Cambodia's southern Koh Kong Province, vividly recalls the day in 2006 when a bulldozer arrived and began clearing his paddy field to make room for a sugar plantation. Since then, life has become much worse for him and 456 other families who also lost their land in Sre Ambel District.
