(Baonghean.vn) -On May 7, 2010, the “Resettlement Project for Fishing Villages” in Khe Mu, Thanh Thuy Commune and in Trieu Duong, Thanh Lam Commune (Thanh Chuong) was started with a total adjusted capital of 83 billion VND, implemented by Dai Cat Thanh Joint Stock Company (Hanoi). It has been more than 7 years but it is still not completed.
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| Four houses built in Khe Mu as a cultural house and kindergarten have become cowsheds. Photo: Huy Thu |
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| Around these constructions, trees grow wildly. Photo: Huy Thu |
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| Inside and out, the buildings are covered in cow dung, like a real manure collection point. Photo: Huy Thu |
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| Mr. Nguyen Sy Thanh (61 years old) in Hamlet 7, Thanh Thuy Commune - the construction guard in Khe Mu resettlement area said: After a long time of project stagnation, many households, who were the previous land owners, arbitrarily brought machines here to dig ditches, put up barbed wire, and fence off plots of land, which were once zoned as residential land for 120 fishing households. Photo: Huy Thu |
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| Some areas of “cultivated land” under the project have been planted with acacia by local people for the past 2 years. In some places, the acacia has grown as good as a person’s head. Local people are continuing to plant more acacia on many other hill areas. Photo: Huy Thu |
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| People in Khe Mu hamlet, Thanh Thuy commune said: While the project was being neglected, the old landowners and many independent people "reoccupied" the project land to plant trees and raise livestock. Everyone did their own thing, no one interfered. According to them, "seeing the land fallow for many years, they felt sorry, so they worked as much as they could". Photo: Huy Thu |
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| Mr. Nguyen Van Thai, Vice Chairman of Thanh Thuy Commune People's Committee, said: "The resettlement project for the fishing village in Khe Mu is unfinished. Although the commune has directed hamlets to propagate to people not to violate land planning, some households still deliberately fence tea and plant trees. The commune also has some responsibility for this situation." Photo: Huy Thu |
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| Rows of lonely electric poles along the roads in the resettlement area do not know when they will be connected to electricity. The way back to Khe Mu for the people of the fishing villages on the Lam River seems increasingly anxious. Photo: Huy Thu |
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