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International Business Times UK
International Business Times UK
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Christelle May Napiza

Trump Billion Pound Project Leaves Rural Vietnam in Tears as Families Are Ordered to Dig Up Longstanding Graveyards

Trump (Credit: The White House)

Ancestral graves that have stood untouched since before the fall of Saigon are being exhumed by weeping farming families to make way for a £1.15 billion ($1.5 billion) Trump Organisation golf resort in northern Vietnam.

The development, branded Trump International, Vietnam, spans 990 hectares (2,446 acres) of fertile agricultural land in Hung Yen province, roughly 40 kilometres southeast of Hanoi. It is set to include three 18-hole championship golf courses, five-star hotels, and ultra-luxury residential estates. The project is already displacing over 4,000 households, clearing the graves of their dead, and doing so under conditions that experts in Vietnamese law say broke the country's own approval processes.

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