Word: sochua
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...awarded government-sanctioned land concessions. In the chaotic rule of the Khmer Rouge regime from 1975-79, most of Cambodia's land titles were destroyed, leaving few farmers with proof of property ownership. "These people had almost nothing, and what little they had is being taken away," says Mu Sochua, secretary general of the opposition Sam Rainsy Party...
...tourists and Western pedophiles make for high-profile arrests. Yet they aren't the prime culprits. "Foreigners are not the only ones who exploit our children," says Mu Sochua, Cambodia's Minister for Women's Affairs. "The real disease comes from within." Indeed, child protection advocates say locals are the biggest offenders?and the ones least likely to be caught and punished. In Cambodia, the threat of punishment is miniscule, as there is no legislation prohibiting sex with children. (However, some cases have been brought against men who have raped children.) Meanwhile, child advocates say the fear of AIDS...
...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...
...Sochua says she's concerned about exploitation?not prostitution, which she wants to legalize. About half of Cambodia's prostitutes were forced into the trade against their will. Some, like 15-year-old Srey Aun, 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...
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