Cambodian aid project partly funded by Australia led to child deaths, report finds

By Lindsay Murdoch
Updated February 9 2014 - 11:08pm, first published 10:39pm
Looking for water: Hut Heap, 13, and her brother Hut Hoeub, 9, drowned in a pond in the Battambang resettlement camp.
Looking for water: Hut Heap, 13, and her brother Hut Hoeub, 9, drowned in a pond in the Battambang resettlement camp.
Looking for water: Hut Heap, 13, and her brother Hut Hoeub, 9, drowned in a pond in the Battambang resettlement camp.
Looking for water: Hut Heap, 13, and her brother Hut Hoeub, 9, drowned in a pond in the Battambang resettlement camp.
Looking for water: Hut Heap, 13, and her brother Hut Hoeub, 9, drowned in a pond in the Battambang resettlement camp.
Looking for water: Hut Heap, 13, and her brother Hut Hoeub, 9, drowned in a pond in the Battambang resettlement camp.

A project partly funded by Australia to rebuild Cambodia’s dilapidated railway was deeply flawed, caused harm to thousands of impoverished people and contributed to the deaths of several children, an internal review has found.

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