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...been massacred overnight. In a rare act of mercy, the Khmer Rouge soldiers allowed the handful of children to survive. Theary Seng eventually escaped to a Thai refugee camp and then to the U.S. Her story is by no means unique in Cambodia. In just this one prison in Svay Rieng province, between 20,000 and 30,000 people were executed, and during the Pol Pot era, about 1.7 million Cambodians died - more than 20% of the country's population...
...those countries, with the result that today 10% to 15% of Cambodian Muslims are Wahhabis. Many go to Saudi Arabia to study. "They come back and are filled with fire and want to change the way we do things," says Soi Ponyamin, a commune chief in the village of Svay Khleang...
...pessimism is borne of experience. Last May, a police raid of a brothel in Cambodia's Svay Pak netted 17 Vietnamese girls, of whom 11 were under the age of 18. Yet Legros points out that none of their pimps were arrested. "They were tipped off," he says. Worse was to come: the girls were ruled to be illegal immigrants rather than victims of human trafficking and were sentenced to three months in jail. Thai Senator Wallop Tangkananurak, chairman of the legislature's Committee on Women, the Elderly and Youth, remarks, "The problem of child prostitution and child abuse...
...year in prison?and Keeler famously protested his conviction by throwing a chair in court and screaming that he'd been promised an acquittal if he paid the judge $3,000. Cambodia has an estimated 20,000 child prostitutes. An hour with a 14-year-old at the squalid Svay Pak sex district costs about $5. A virgin can be deflowered for as little...
...guerrillas said their attacks preventedPremier Hun Sen from meeting in Phnom Penh withAustralian Deputy Foreign Secretary MichaelCostello for talks on a peace plan. They said HunSen went from Ho Chi Minh City to Cambodia'seastern Svay Rieng province, bordering Vietnam, tomeet the envoy