Gone for good to fetch a pail of water
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| Kith Meng's (shown above) Royal Group of Companies has previously been associated with controversial forced evictions where police and armed forces have herded families from land earmarked for development |
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| Drowning victims ... Hut Heap, 13, and her brother Hut Hoeub, 9, died four days after they and their families were forcibly resettled. |
Richard Baker and Nick McKenzie
Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
''AusAID is being negligent in failing to ensure that Australian aid is not being used in a way that harms poor families in developing countries.''No one involved in a railway project, including AusAID, thought families moved out of the way might need access to fresh running water, write Richard Baker and Nick McKenzie.
On a hot May afternoon, Cambodian sister and brother Hut Heap and Hut Hoeub left their makeshift family home to search for fresh water.
They never returned. Hours later, the bodies of the 13-year-old girl and her nine-year-old brother were found at the bottom of an eight-metre-deep pond by men prodding the water with poles.
It had been just four days since the siblings, their family and 50 others had been uprooted from their homes and moved to a resettlement site to allow work to begin on a rail project partly financed by the Australian government and operated by the Melbourne firm Toll Holdings and its partner, Cambodia's Royal Group of Companies.
