Cambodian prime minister Hun Sen blasted a member of his cabinet on Friday for saying that cyanide run-off from Chinese-operated gold mines had caused the deaths of villagers recently poisoned by local water sources.
That explanation, offered to reporters last week by Minister of Industry and Handicraft Cham Prasidh, departed from the government line blaming the deaths on homemade wine and pesticides used by local farms.
The minister’s unauthorized comments had embarrassed his government, Hun Sen told Cham Prasidh.
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