Source: http://www.voxy.co.nz/entertainment/week-tvnz-7/5/46716
Broadcast date: Tuesday 18 May, 7.35pm
On:Unreported World On TVNZ 7 (New Zealand)
Thirty years on from the fall of the Khmer Rouge, and at the same time as Pol Pot's accomplices are being put on trial for war crimes, Cambodia's people are once again being brutally driven from their land.
This time, however, it is capitalism, not communism, that is displacing them, as growing numbers of tourists fuel a property boom that is having devastating results.
In Phnom Penh where land is now worth three times as much as two years ago, Unreported World investigates allegations that the Cambodian authorities are behind a policy of violent evictions of the country's poor from their homes. The inhabitants of the slum district of Dey Krahorm, which is home to 120 families and right next to central Phnom Penh's plush new hotels, embassies and new National Assembly, are being forced to leave so their land can be sold to a property developer.
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