Word: cambodians
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...peril. Even hill-tribe Christmas celebrations, which are held without interference in other parts of Vietnam, are subject to harassment. Leh Ksor, 35, a new resident of Raleigh, recalls how police two years ago used tear gas to break up a Christmas pageant in a highland village near the Cambodian border. Parents, coughing and wheezing, grabbed their children and fled in terror, only to be beaten by waiting police...
...American churches have rallied in support of the Montagnards. The White House has granted special refugee status to the 900 currently in Cambodian camps, which speeds their emigration to the U.S. But Washington is powerless to do anything for those who remain in the highlands. Y Mphiap, who fled Vietnam last year, says tribes staged the mass demonstrations to attract international sympathy. Overseas diplomatic pressure was supposed to force Hanoi to give back their land, he says. Instead, secret police rounded up protesters and put them in jail. Y Mphiap and 22 of his fellow villagers headed for the jungle...
...tread carefully: military experts say the proposed golf course site at the center of the triangle is saturated with land mines. According to Thailand's Deputy Defense Minister, Yuthasak Sasiprapa, explosive antipersonnel devices are strewn along the Thai border as well as liberally sprinkled throughout the Laotian and Cambodian sectors. De-mining the area will cost upwards of $11.5 million, he says, adding to the more than $46 million the Tourism Authority believes it will take to get the project off the ground...
...reasons Cambodia is blasE about foreigners using child prostitutes is that so many Cambodian men do it, too. Late last year, female parliamentarian Khem Chamroeun pointed her finger around the National Assembly and declared that some of her fellow lawmakers were known to patronize underage prostitutes. No one contradicted her. "A man going to a brothel is the same as going for a beer," says Mu Sochua, the outspoken Minister of Women's Affairs...
...were sold by their own mothers. Aun was 12 when her mother took her from her home province of Mondolkiri to Phnom Penh where, after some haggling, she sold her for $150. She spent the next three years locked in a room serving six to eight men a day?Cambodian police, Thai businessmen, French tourists?until she escaped...