{"id":1090,"date":"2023-03-17T14:28:15","date_gmt":"2023-03-17T06:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rice4life.sg\/bulletin\/?p=1090"},"modified":"2023-03-17T14:28:15","modified_gmt":"2023-03-17T06:28:15","slug":"whats-it-all-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rice4life.sg\/bulletin\/news-updates\/whats-it-all-about\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s it all about?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Residents say authorities visited their stalls last summer and told them to leave before 2023. Others were given closer deadlines, with officials saying they had received\u00a0two warnings<\/a>\u00a0in the last five years about development at the site. As compensation they were offered a small plot of land, metal sheeting for a roof, $250 to construct new homes and 50kg of rice.<\/p>\n

Cambodia\u2019s prime minister, Hun Sen, has referred to the evictions as \u201cvoluntary relocations\u201d necessary to retain Unesco status. \u201cAngkor Wat might be withdrawn from the world heritage [list], because it would lose the terms and conditions that are required by the world heritage commission,\u201d\u00a0he said<\/a>\u00a0in August. In October, he warned that those who refused to leave would be evicted without \u201ceven a single cent\u201d.<\/p>\n

Unesco\u2019s world heritage committee expressed concerns about \u201cuncontrolled<\/a>\u201d development in the park in a 2008 report, but it has not listed Angkor as \u201cin danger\u201d of having its status removed since 2004, and in 2014 it commended Cambodia for progress on its management of illegal structures.<\/p>\n

Cambodia has been asked to submit a report in December on conservation at Angkor.<\/p>\n

“Unesco or the world heritage committee have never called for population displacements in Angkor,\u201d says a spokesperson for the UN agency, adding that Cambodia assured the office that livelihoods, sustainable development and human rights would \u201cbe respected\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Residents say authorities visited their stalls last summer and told them to leave before 2023. Others were given closer deadlines, with officials saying they had received\u00a0two warnings\u00a0in the last five years about development at the site. As compensation they…<\/p>\n

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