By Mukul Devichand BBC Radio 4, Crossing Continents Continue reading the main story Related stories Cambodia: A land up for sale? Cambodia protest over land grabs Cambodia 'suffering land crisis' In a remote part of northern Cambodia, a Buddhist monk in flowing orange robes is reciting a poem. The words are anything but traditional. "There was a day when the hostile traders conspired with the corrupted authority," chants the Venerable Lun Sovath, using measured rhyming couplets in the Khmer language. "Wake up all Khmers and unite," he continues. "Bring back our rice fields." He has brought me to this scrap of scrubland, where 20 villagers now eek out a living picking mushrooms, to show me...
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