Cambodia's Curse (24 page)
Authors: Joel Brinkley
Sam Rainsy
Prince Norodom Sihanouk
Farmers planting rice more or less as their forebears did 1,000 years ago.
Tuy Khorn tries to dig furrows by tying a heavy rock to her primitive plow.
This twelfth-century Bayon temple carving shows an oxcart nearly identical to those used today.
Residents, including a land mine victim in the hammock, watch their village’s only car-battery-powered television.
When a charity gave out free rice, Chan Yat, 76, was almost the only one who got any.
Farmers ferry live pigs to market.
School teacher Kdep Sokhin, 26, fears he will soon have 143 students, all by himself.
A mother, a bit of blood on her blouse, recovers from a C-section at Battambang Hospital.
A woman recovers from childbirth at Pailin Referral Hospital. At the room’s other end is the nurse with the slightly crossed eyes and the “Duty Room,” where the nurses sleep.
Mith Ran tells the sorrowful story of his wife’s death at Pailin Referral Hospital.
Let Ting, 22, was widowed after a military officer burned her husband to death.
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