Government Fails in Promise to Deliver Assistance to Victims of Laos Dam Burst
Survivors of July’s disaster at the Xe Pian Xe Namnoy (PNPC) hydropower project in Champassak, Laos are calling upon the local and national governments for relief, after failing to receive promised allowances for living expenses for the past two month., according to a local official.
Two months ago the Lao government agreed to pay $12 per month to each person who was affected by the collapse of PNPC’s dam, which swept away homes and caused severe flooding in up to 12 villages downstream in Champassak and neighboring Attapeu Province.
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