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Tuole Slang

By on Apr 7, 2012 in Outreach

If you enjoyed the read, please feel free to share it Tuole Slang. The Infamous S-21. From ‘75 to ‘79 the Khmer Rouge tortured and annihilated at least 15,000 peeps here. Like the Nazis, they a fetishistic thang for recording it all…...

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The Incidence of Incidents

By on Apr 7, 2012 in Outreach

If you enjoyed the read, please feel free to share itIn Cambodia it’s very high, The I of I is High. Everywhere you look, everywhere you go, shit’s going down and a lot of it seems willfully fatal, or at least overly fatalistic. A lot of it, though certainly not all, is to be seen out there in traffic: the blind merges and U-turns, the comically overloaded Camrys, the buses splitting the center-line at 120 kph with 8 bald unmatched re-capped Chinese-made tires, a hand-on-horn and left blinker flashing; the puffed-up self-styled VIP flunkies blasting through villages in their 100 thousand dolla Range Rovers with Police escorts and sirens on full. All regardless of the naked children playing in the roads, the Brahma carts; the dotty helium balloon salesmen jinking along the non-existent shoulder with their sloping pushcarts. These people, in general, are callous to life and suffering while being incredibly warm and amiable, family-crazy and respectful of their elders. It’s kind of a 3rd world conundrum, but Cambodians have a special flair for it. Maybe we would too, having seen what they’ve seen, and having thrown our eggs that aren’t Animist into the Karma Rice Bowl. Nothing is more extended than a Cambodian family; the parents work, for nothing, and the kids are left with the Grand Ps and, by-and-by, end up worm-turning in traffic and doing all the other shit that unattended kids will do. So kids find incidents with worrying frequency. It’s how it is and it’s not good. In Battambang Province, all roads lead to NH5 – National Highway 5 – the route that connects Battambang with Phnom Penh in the SE and in turn swings around the end of the lake ‘Tonle Sap’ to Siem Reap. There’s a lot of action on NH5; the above-mentioned action and a lot else besides. I’ve been roaming it back and forth with the boys from ‘CWARS’, or The Cambodian War Amputee Relief Society. They’ve re-branded themselves as a new NGO called ‘LOM ORNG’, which means ‘Bee Pollen’ in English, and they’re spreading a little sweetness wherever they can. I believe they are no longer CWARS because, for years now, they’ve been doing so much more than just...

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