Sewage scraps blow through the alleyways of Andong, at the outskirts of Phnom Penh, giving it a putrid scent accented by damp air and daily floods. Just outside a line of crammed huts, across a garbage-strewn field with cows grazing, the town well too is contaminated, making life doubly hard for the poor souls forced by the government to live here. The village chief, donning a camouflage jacket and flashing his gold teeth, eyes the video camera of the United Nations film crew I’m traveling with. “We don’t need anything here, he says. “Only to stop the flooding.”
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