"Dozens of Affected Families of Sesan Dam Seek Compensation, But Gov’t Says the Offer Has Ended" CamboJA News, 10 June 2025

Some 40 indigenous people [...] calling on the authorities and stakeholders to address an unresolved compensation demand lasting nearly 10 years.

The community is demanding compensation for damaged homes, and destroyed crops and ancestral burial sites [...].

The community is also urging the authorities to expedite the registration of over 2,000 hectares of communal land [...].

The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries granted 10,000 hectares of land as concession to Siv Guek Investment [...] later purchased by Chinese company Huayue [...].

The dam, an [...] joint venture between Cambodian, Chinese and Vietnamese entities [...] displaced close to 5,000 people, and permanently altered a broad swath of rural watershed inhabited by [...] ethnic and indigenous minorities.

[...] provincial deputy administration [...] said there will be no further compensation [...] noting that residents “chose to live in the area they wanted”.

Regarding the collective land title registration, he mentioned that it cannot be executed [...] within the economic land concession controlled by a company.

Leang Bunleap, 3S Rivers Protection Network executive director, said the [...] hydropower dam development policy [...] “ignored the needs of local communities”.