This is completely false. I have close friends who have been evicted just this last month. Not from the vendor shops surrounding Angkor, but from the residential area further away from it. They had government representatives show up at their home 3-4 times last month (groups of 10 people) to intimidate them to leave. They offered them half an acre of undeveloped land 12 KM away to relocate to. This is detrimental to people’s livelihoods that they have spent years to cultivate. My friends built a bed and breakfast with sprawling gardens that housed tourists year round and that’s all being taken away without proper compensation. Shame on UNESCO for letting this happen.
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This is completely false. I have close friends who have been evicted just this last month. Not from the vendor shops surrounding Angkor, but from the residential area further away from it. They had government representatives show up at their home 3-4 times last month (groups of 10 people) to intimidate them to leave. They offered them half an acre of undeveloped land 12 KM away to relocate to. This is detrimental to people’s livelihoods that they have spent years to cultivate. My friends built a bed and breakfast with sprawling gardens that housed tourists year round and that’s all being taken away without proper compensation. Shame on UNESCO for letting this happen.