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The disappearance of the love shacks
Spectrum, Published on 16/03/2014
» It’s nearing sunset on a Friday evening in the dry season, and in the village of Tang Kamal in Ratanakiri women gather by the well to bathe and collect water. Cooling off from a long day of farming, they try to avoid tripping over the pigs, dogs and chickens that clamour around their feet. When the sun sets, many of these women will sleep with their families in their homes. But some of the teenage girls will be an exception. It is a tradition in the Kreung minority, scattered in 27 villages around Ratanakiri’s Ochum district, to build girls their own private huts when they hit puberty. The idea of these huts, or “girls’ houses”, as they are referred to by the communities themselves, is that girls can have the space and opportunity to invite boys over, get to know them, and have sex with them if they want to.
Pol Pot a steady but thorny client for china
Spectrum, Published on 23/02/2014
» In 2010, the Chinese ambassador to Cambodia, Zhang Jinfeng, claimed that the People’s Republic of China had never politically engaged with what was the Democratic Kampuchea regime. Instead, she argued that assistance was limited to “food, hoes and scythes”.