The Observer 24.10.2004, haettu 19.4.2008 Several Khmer Rouge leaders live in villas in Pailin, profiting from large farms, logging of hardwood forests and gem mining.
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Landmine Monitor Report Cambodia (2000), haettu 19.4.2008 However, most of the rural communities living along the Thai-Cambodian border are affected by mines in various ways. Statistics from the CRC/HI Database reveal that most mine incidents in 1999 occurred in Battambang (31% of total incidents), Banteay Meanchey (20% of total incidents), Oddar Meanchey, Siem Reap, Preah Vihear, Pailin and Pursat.
Tourism of Cambodia, haettu 19.4.2008[vanhentunut linkki] The current population in this municipality is about 35,234 people or 0.25% of the country’s total population (14,363,519 person in Cambodia, 2007, provincial government data), with 19,059 male and 16,175 female. The population density is therefore 44 people per square kilometre.
Yale University - Cambodian Genocide Program: Thailand's Response to the Cambodian Genocide, haettu 20.4.2008 Pailin has been such a precious asset for the Khmer Rouge leaders that they did not want to abandon it, even those who they had decided to defect from the Pol Pot-led guerilla forces. In 1997, Ieng Sary’s faction, which defected to the Cambodian government in 1996, was reportedly still making millions of dollars selling gems to Thai traders. At least 29 mining companies operated in the Pailin area. Each company was required to pay the dissident group 220,000 baht a month in return for a concession.
Yale University - Cambodian Genocide Program: Thailand's Response to the Cambodian Genocide, haettu 20.4.2008 In 1990, several business deals between Thai private companies and the Khmer Rouge were reached. Six Thai timber companies, one partly owned by a Chatichai cabinet minister, were trying to win contracts from the Khmer Rouge to carry out massive logging in Pailin town, south of Battambang and opposite the Thai province of Chanthaburi. In August 1990, the Khmer Rouge granted a group of about five hundred Thai gem traders a concession to dig for precious stones in their newly-captured stronghold of Pailin. In return for the concession, the group agreed to build a 12-kilometer road from Pailin to the Noen Phi border checkpoint in Chanthaburi Province, in order to facilitate their clandestine cross-border trade.
