From The Age:
As construction trucks roar past the fence separating Mr Chen’s shop from the Three Gorges construction site at Sandouping ” a restricted military zone open to tourists on a tightly-monitored basis ” he can gaze out at the placid waters that cover his former village and the small restaurant he used to run.
For 14 years Mr Chen and thousands of other villagers displaced by the world’s largest hydro electric project have been engaged in a battle for compensation for their lost livelihoods and land, swept under 38 billion cubic metres of water for the good of the nation. [Full text]
