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Living on Tnaot island in the dam’s inundation area, Commune head Mr Suong, 64, fled the Khmer Rouge genocide to the Island in 1979 to seek protection from the invading Vietnamese forces. His commune had made a collective decision to flee and found the island, one of four in the river, uninhabited. Now it is threatened by a giant hydropower scheme.

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