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Was up in Samlout
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Was up in Samlout

By on Jan 20, 2014 in Life in Cambodia

If you enjoyed the read, please feel free to share itWas up in Samlout in Cambodia’s NW along with a writer and photographer from the Wellcome Trust. I was revisiting some of my boys to gauge the success of the treatment. Out of the approx 24 that I managed to speak to, 23 rated the mirror therapy a total success. The guy I missed on was my hero, a double amp. I told him it was gonna be a longshot. He said the mirror actually aggravated the good side Oops. Can’t win ‘em all. He didn’t hoid it against me tho’. We’re still...

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DANGEROUS OUT THERE

By on Jan 18, 2014 in Outreach

If you enjoyed the read, please feel free to share it‘Record Number of Peacekeepers Fail to Stop Wars’. That’s the title of a page 1 article in a recent edition of the Cambodia Daily. The article isn’t quite as nonsensical as it sounds; the gist of it is that, though the UN has deployed a record number of peacekeepers to trouble spots worldwide, a record number of clashes have broken out; from ‘Dirty Little Wars’ to conflicts tottering on something quite a bit more fearifying. Cambodia’s leader, Hun Sen, has got a powder keg in his dirty grabby little girly hands too. No ‘Blue Helmets’ have yet been dispatched but Hun Sen has certainly dispatched a handful of civilians. Aside from general dissatisfaction and unrest and the bald-faced certainty of ballot-box stuffing, he has other specific mosquitos whining in his ear. The garment workers are up in stones: they are striking, off and on, over their pitiful salaries. They managed to force the unions (many of whom are aligned with Hun Sen’s CPP) up from 71 to 80 to 95 and finally to 100 dollars per month. The last 5 bucks cost 5 lives. They’ve promised $160 (les promesse du putain!) by 2018, but 4 years more of living, traveling to and fro, and working stacked like cordwood in un-ventilated sweat bunkers with a growling tummy somehow seems unsavory to them. So they are protesting and they are getting shot. It bears mentioning that these threatening protesters are almost all women, poor, and 85 pounds wet. They also crank out a lot of clothing. This is, for example, one of the world’s chief dispersal centers for yoga pants. People like Vancouver’s own ‘Chip’, the CEO and founder of LULULEMON, the one who built a 37 million dollar palace along the most expensive strip of real estate in Canada, would have us believe that he’s a gift to the Cambodian economy, as he employs so many people… Hun’s heavies, for their part, can’t figure out who killed the workers – it wasn’t them. ‘We never shoot at a target to take a life… so we don’t know who killed them.’ All the garment workers were shot in the head or...

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