Occupy Democrats - Graves are exhumed and the bodies moved to make way for a $1.5 billion Trump Organization golf course in Vietnam — and the locals are furious.
“It’s painful. I’m outraged by the compensation price," said Hoang Do, who was paid just $2,660 for removing the remains of his son and parents from their final resting place.
The Financial Times reports that a sacred gravesite in the the Hung Yen province of Vietnam is being demolished, and the bodies inside moved, so that the Trump Organization can erect yet another hideous golf course. Eric Trump has boasted that it will be "the envy of all of Asia and of the entire world." ...
The Vietnamese government is supporting the demolition and body removal because they know that rubber-stamping Trump's business endeavors is the quickest way to ingratiate them with the White House....
Vietnam finds itself in a particularly difficult position because Trump previously threatened to place a 46% tariff on exports from the export-reliant nation. They know that he is a deeply vindictive man. They've assessed the risks and decided that harming their own people in one region is better than having Trump destroy their entire national economy.
And the locals aren't even being given a fair price for their heartbreak. Reuters reported last year that some individuals are being paid just $12 for 10 square feet of land. The course is expected to gobble up roughly four square miles, displacing over 4,000 households.
....Not only are graves being disturbed, but fertile farmland is being snatched up, leaving locals without a way to feed their families.
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