Cambodian child deaths linked to Australian aid agency
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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. |
ABC Radio Australia
Calls are growing for an investigation into a Cambodian resettlment site, after two children died.
The children, aged nine and 13, were found dead in a pond near Battambang in western Cambodia. Their deaths come just days after their family and 50 others were forced out of their homes and moved to a resettlement site so that work could begin on a railway project. That project is partly financed by the Australian government aid agency Aus AID and operated by Melbourne firm Toll Holdings, with its local partner, Cambodia's Royal Group of Companies. Now Cambodian aid group Bridges Across Borders is calling for an investigation into the site and the Australian government's role.
