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Toxic runoff from politically linked gold mine poisons Cambodian rivers, communities

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Communities along Cambodia’s O’Ta Bouk River are experiencing severe water contamination, skin ailments and the collapse of fish stocks, which they blame on an unregulated gold mine operating upstream inside Virachey National Park.

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