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Re: Runaway Lesbians in Cambodia
I lived in Cambodia for three years, part of that time as an editor for a English-language media digest. My wife's Cambodian. I think I can offer some commentary. The bit was taken from Koh Santepheap (Island of Peace) a daily Khmer-language newspaper that deals in gossip as much as news. Any kind of salacious news gets a lot of play. Even the ...
Posted to XX Factor by Sihanouk's Poodle on August 22, 2008
Re: You can thank China and Thailand
Grave robers pure and simple. I am aware of the ''killing Feilds'' of Cambodia and it is a horrible thing that happend. If these we're 3000 yr. old Egyptions toombs being unearthed I might understand. These are mass graves only several years old with family members and friends buried their. I also realize this country is very poor but it ...
Posted to Dispatches by rigecrest on June 18, 2007
Looting the dead of Cambodia
I can barely grasp how starved and hard up a person would have to be willingly to go poking through the remains of a killing field. Perhaps the villagers severe poverty blurred the lines of decency between life and death. Hunger is a beast. I had the great fortune to be a penpal with Dith Pran during the late nineties, around the same time Pol ...
Posted to Dispatches by pbev on June 13, 2007