A Cambodian tale - Relocation or forced eviction?

Tourists visiting Bayon temple at Angkor Wat temple complex in Siem Reap province, Cambodia. — AP

IT’s been more than a year since Yem Srey Pin moved with her family from the village where she was born on Cambodia’s Angkor Unesco World Heritage site to Run Ta Ek, a dusty new settlement about 25km away.

Hers is one of about 5,000 families relocated from the sprawling archaeological site, one of South-East Asia’s top tourist draws, by Cambodian authorities in an ongoing programme that Amnesty International has condemned as a “gross violation of international human rights law.” Another 5,000 families are still due to be moved.