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A resident restored and then tried to cover an addition to her home that was removed by Apasara Authority’’s conservation patrollers in Prasat Bakong district’s Ampil commune in Siem Reap province on February 12, 2024. (CamboJA/Khuon Narim)

Residents Near Angkor Wat Continue to Struggle with Apsara Restrictions

Map, a 35-year-old whose family has lived about 20 kilometers from Angkor Wat for generations, doesn’t want her two children to have to walk a dirt path to use the outdoor toilet behind their home. But authorities told her family they will remove the half-meter wide cement path that Map’s family recently built, saying they did not have permission to build it.