Ro Cham H'pnhieng is photographed at her house in Oyadaw village, near the border with Vietnam, in the northeast of Cambodia January 16 ,2007. A Cambodian woman who went missing in the jungle for 18 years before being found last week is struggling to adapt to life as a human and wants to return to the forest, police said on Friday. Ro went missing as an eight-year-old along with her cousin when they were sent to tend cows near the border with Vietnam. Picture taken January 16, 2007. REUTERS/Stringer
Ro Cham H'pnhieng (L) and her mother Ros Chamsoy are photographed at their house in Oyadaw village, near the border with Vietnam, in the northeast of Cambodia, January 16, 2007. Ro Cham H'pnhieng went missing as an eight-year-old along with her cousin when they were sent to tend cows near the border with Vietnam. REUTERS/StringerBy Ek Madra
PHNOM PENH, Jan 19 (Reuters Life!) - A Cambodian woman who went missing in the jungle for 18 years before being found last week is struggling to adapt to life as a human and wants to return to the forest, police said on Friday.
"She prefers to crawl rather than walk like a human," said Mao Sun, a district police chief in the jungle-clad northeastern province of Rattanakiri where the girl's family live.
"Unfortunately, she keeps crying and wants to go back to the jungle," he said. "She is not used to living with humans. We had to clothe her. When she is thirsty or hungry she points at her mouth," he told Reuters by phone.
The girl, called Ro Cham H'pnhieng, went missing as an eight-year-old along with her cousin when they were sent to tend cows near the border with Vietnam.
Villagers believed they had been eaten by wild animals until a girl was caught last week by a logging team as she was trying to steal some food they had left under a tree.
With blackened skin and hair stretching down to her legs, she was unrecognizable apart from a scar across her back that allowed her father to pick her out.
After 18 years in the wilderness, police said she was able to say only three words: father, mother and stomach ache.
Villagers from the Phnong ethnic hilltribe minority believe the girl is still possessed by evil spirits of the forest. They
have brought in Buddhist monks to bless her and set up a round-the-clock watch on the family hut.
In December 2004, four families in the same province, which was crisscrossed by the paths of the Ho Chi Minh trail during the Vietnam War, emerged from 25 years in the jungle after fleeing the 1979 Vietnamese invasion that ousted the Khmer Rouge.
"She prefers to crawl rather than walk like a human," said Mao Sun, a district police chief in the jungle-clad northeastern province of Rattanakiri where the girl's family live.
"Unfortunately, she keeps crying and wants to go back to the jungle," he said. "She is not used to living with humans. We had to clothe her. When she is thirsty or hungry she points at her mouth," he told Reuters by phone.
The girl, called Ro Cham H'pnhieng, went missing as an eight-year-old along with her cousin when they were sent to tend cows near the border with Vietnam.
Villagers believed they had been eaten by wild animals until a girl was caught last week by a logging team as she was trying to steal some food they had left under a tree.
With blackened skin and hair stretching down to her legs, she was unrecognizable apart from a scar across her back that allowed her father to pick her out.
After 18 years in the wilderness, police said she was able to say only three words: father, mother and stomach ache.
Villagers from the Phnong ethnic hilltribe minority believe the girl is still possessed by evil spirits of the forest. They
have brought in Buddhist monks to bless her and set up a round-the-clock watch on the family hut.
In December 2004, four families in the same province, which was crisscrossed by the paths of the Ho Chi Minh trail during the Vietnam War, emerged from 25 years in the jungle after fleeing the 1979 Vietnamese invasion that ousted the Khmer Rouge.
12 comments:
How come the same article I read last week mentioned she is Vietnamese. Now she's Cambodian. By her dress, she's Cambodian. Sorry to hear that. She has a lot to learn about basic life in the community. Hope she will be OK.
All khmer krom and khmer loeur are khmer!
There are two similar stories:
one in Vietnam and one in cambodia.
Nope, Khmer Krom in general
(aboout 14 millions) don't
fell like khmer but Vietnamese.
Khmer Leu, on the other hand,
is smaller in number (about 1
million), but about 20% still
having some feeling for Khmer.
The reason is the Sieam is not
as good in assimilating people
as Vietnamese.
I wonder what she looks like naked? I bet she has hot tits.
to: 3:36 AM
your comment is rediculous and has no base what so ever. Khmer Krom has fought the Vietnamese for centuries until this day they are still fighting. They are proud Khmers. If you don't know what you are talking about just keep your mouth shut! Visit khmerkrom.org
Visit khmerkrom.org, yeah right.
This like saying, "If you want to
know about WMD in Iraq, ask the
CIA." LOL.
Why scared to visit KK site?
I think these KK people are more open. The CIA knows about WMD, but Puttin (Russia) was faster than Bush that's why the WMD cannot be found. It'd look bad on Bush for being too slow.
You can fight with words now but you Viets won't stop those KK even for thousand years more.
I hope we all can live for a few hundred years to see this.
I'd be nice if we can reborn and remember our previous life then to find no more land left but in the water like Pompeii.
I am not scare to visite KK or
any site. I just don't like
ONE VIEW site. If they let Yuon
to rebutal their allegations, then
I would be happy to lean more.
You see, that is why no one can
easily brainwashed me as they can
do you.
I visited and read if I were you.
I think moi28 is right that you are scared and racist.
She is a Cambodian girl who was raised in Vietnam.So her parents are Cambodian but speak Vietnamese and go with the Vietnamese culture.
She is a Cambodian girl who was raised in Vietnam.So her parents are Cambodian but speak Vietnamese and go with the Vietnamese culture.
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