Karaoke Parlors Closed for Hosting Young Students
By Chhay Channyda
THE CAMBODIA DAILY
Two karaoke parlors in Phnom Penh's Daun Penh district were shut down Monday after a police raid uncovered 20 young students skipping school, officials said Wednesday.
The students, aged 10 to 18, were found inside the two parlors, located within 100 meters of the Bun Rany Hun Sen junior high school in the Srah Chak commune, district deputy governor Pich Socheata said.
Playing truant from the nearby junior high school and other schools, the male and female students were taken to the district offices to be "reeducated on morality and culture," Pich Socheata said.
Female karaoke staff, who provide company for the mostly male customers at the parlors, were not in the rooms with the young students, but the video players were at their disposal, Pich Socheata said.
"Students might watch sex videos—not only songs," she said.
The parlor owners, who are both district police officers, were asked to sign letters agreeing not to reopen their establishments, she said, but declined to reveal the officers' names.
In Cambodia it is illegal to operate entertainment venues such as karaoke and video game parlors within 100 meters of a school, Srah Chak commune police chief Touch Sarin said.
The students were released Monday evening on guarantees of good behavior from their parents and teachers, he said.
"We want students to concentrate only on their studies when they go to school," he added.
On Nov 29, 101 students, aged 14 to 22, were arrested briefly after being discovered in karaoke establishments in the same district.
Theng Vannak, deputy bureau chief of the municipal minor crime department said at the time that students' daytime use of karaoke parlors was for drug use and sex.
The students, aged 10 to 18, were found inside the two parlors, located within 100 meters of the Bun Rany Hun Sen junior high school in the Srah Chak commune, district deputy governor Pich Socheata said.
Playing truant from the nearby junior high school and other schools, the male and female students were taken to the district offices to be "reeducated on morality and culture," Pich Socheata said.
Female karaoke staff, who provide company for the mostly male customers at the parlors, were not in the rooms with the young students, but the video players were at their disposal, Pich Socheata said.
"Students might watch sex videos—not only songs," she said.
The parlor owners, who are both district police officers, were asked to sign letters agreeing not to reopen their establishments, she said, but declined to reveal the officers' names.
In Cambodia it is illegal to operate entertainment venues such as karaoke and video game parlors within 100 meters of a school, Srah Chak commune police chief Touch Sarin said.
The students were released Monday evening on guarantees of good behavior from their parents and teachers, he said.
"We want students to concentrate only on their studies when they go to school," he added.
On Nov 29, 101 students, aged 14 to 22, were arrested briefly after being discovered in karaoke establishments in the same district.
Theng Vannak, deputy bureau chief of the municipal minor crime department said at the time that students' daytime use of karaoke parlors was for drug use and sex.
2 comments:
Fighting a losing battle. Those characters and moral of the youths are inherited from the leaders and parents. underage and overage or too old age are only in physical law but the bad/good footprints of the adults prove to be decisive for our youths mentality.
I think this problem will repeat again when all of these students and others have no hope on their future. What is their future when they complete their studies, there will be no job available for them. Even they can find a job, their income will be only enough to eat for one good meal? All of lucrative jobs are only reserved for Hun sen families and friends. If not they must pay a lot of monies to buy a position to rob others. This is country controled by a blind !!!!!
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