Poor children leaving behind Angkor Wat

Poor children at Angkor Wat temple is selling some souvenirs or gifts in order to earn a living.

What happens to their parents? Who care them? Or do all these children have to take care of their mother, fathers instead. It seems like that. They are working all say long to sell some gift to visitors around Angkor War temple. For most visitors, they fear of these children. They did not buy any gifts from them. They did not even pay attention to the children's difficulty and suffering. Who care? Probably, visitors both national and international may think that it is not their responsbility; it's their parents or government respsobility and accountability. That is why visitors just pass by and never drop their one or both eyes on these poor children.

This is not an accepted behavior. Visitors and those who meet them should do something. Help as much they can. The best and very first thing they should do is to make happy with hope. Then can buy them a book to read or rather buy those children's gift. Also, better find a suitable place for them to get education. It can be in NGOs school or public school. At least, say some words to them and don't make them hurt if you can't do other thing else.

So sad to make this video clip and I'm sure it is also so pity for you to watch it. At the same time few people enjoy making a lot of money from Angkor Wat, becoming richest in the country, living in a good villa, eating delicious food, driving modern cars and wearing civilized clothes, many, especially poor children from very poor family, are left behind. During my journey to Angkor Wat, I had interviewed with those children about their everyday life. I've asked them about studying: they tend to answer nothing. Yes, they said they went to school but not so often or temporarily leave school for their business. In fact, they are on the street selling some souvenirs and others for a living. I don't know if they do this because their parents force or not. But I know for sure that they have to be strong and survive. That's why started to earn for a living since very little. This is the tragedy for the country. The share-earning from Angkor Wat may go only to few people and not everyone that is why we usually see poor living on the street of the modern city. Governance and human security seem very low in this society.

At least 4 killed in clash between government forces in Cambodia

Sadly, innocent, unarmed Cambodians were killed during a peaceful demonstration lately. Based on Human Rights Watch, protestors peacefully protested. But they are celebrating a party in the evening and everyone almost went home, the government force came in and hit them violently. And that the clash broke up; many injures and about 4 get killed.

Five people were shot dead and more than 20 injured, most suffering gunshot wounds, when military police officers opened fire with AK-47 assault rifles during clashes with protesters armed with stones, sticks and crude Molotov cocktails on Veng Sreng Street in the heart of the garment factory zone in Phnom Penh’s Pur Senchey district on Friday.

Said local rights group Licadho, the killings represent terrible state violence against civilians and innocent people. In 15 years this is one of the single worst incidents ever to hit the country’s key garment industry, which employs more than 600,000 people in hundreds of mostly foreign-owned firms.

Garment factory workers went strike peacefully to increase their wage to around 160 USD. They did not expect such horrible response from the government which led to deaths and injuries of many peaceful strikers in the capital, the heart city of the Cambodia Kingdom.

Violence in the Veng Sreng Street area was erupted in late Thursday night when reportedly some youths intended to block roads and set fire to some car tires nearby in an intention to call for freedom of detentions of 15 strikers, union leaders and monks by members of the paratrooper 911 Brigade at the Yakjin garment factory, also in Pur Senchey district.

At that time, it was around 2:00 amp of Friday morning, there were hundreds of police and military police tried to quell the unrest but they unsuccessful stopped it, said Licadho officers in its statement. There were up to 2,000 “mixed security forces” had gathered in the area by the time shooting broke out around 10 a.m Friday.

Since early in the morning, hundreds of young workers including men and women stood behind make-shift barricades in the middle of street namely Veng Sreng, which they had made from wooden market stalls and metal street signs, and from where they hurled stones at the military police. Many of the rioting youths had crude Molotov cocktails, though none appeared to hit the military police lines.

Till around 9:00 a.m. in that morning there were two military helicopters flew over the protest site and another. Then at 9:30 a.m. hundreds of military police officers who marched at front of the protesters near the Canadia Industrial Park were ready to march. But the clashes almost went up to 100 decree Celsius.

At around 10:00 a.m. in that morning is when the fire was opening. Under a barrage of stones thrown by more than 100 protesters, the military police opened fire around 10 a.m., shooting hundreds of bullets at the demonstrators, including firing at the upper balconies of buildings where protesters were standing and hurling objects.

This was the tragic history of killing and violence after the country was set on peaceful process for about 20 years. The human rights situation which was supposed to get much improved the end of the fiscal year rather turns down.

Till today, innocent civilians and many peaceful strikers can’t reach their demands. They rather lost their love ones and are awaiting for justice. However, hope of much improve working condition, wages and other kinds of salary became less and less visible for garment factory workers in the whole country. No one knows for sure if all workers will get protected by the factories and the government. Perhaps the next national election that will be taken place in 2018 answer all of these problems.