More than 600 households displaced by the building of 2 dams in a northern Lao province 5 years back are still waiting for arrive on which to farm and completely settle, and are contacting authorities for aid, Lao sources state. The villagers, moved from their land in Luang Prabang province’s Xieng-Ngeun district to give way for the China- backed Nam Khan 2 and Nam Khan 3 dams, were transferred to short-term camps in between 2016 and 2018 and have actually struggled ever since to earn a living, villagers informed RFA’s Lao Service.
