Thu Jan 18, 2007 Woman returns after 18 years in Cambodia jungle
HANOI (Reuters) - A woman has been returned to her home in Vietnam's Central Highlands 18 years after she went missing as an eight-year old girl tending cows near the Cambodian border, her father told a newspaper on Thursday.
Policeman Ksor Lu long believed that his daughter had been eaten by a wild animal until last Saturday when he was told that loggers had found "a forestman" at a village in Cambodia's province of Ratanakiri.
Lu arrived and "recognized his daughter from the first sighting" even though her body was blackened and she had long hair down to her legs and could not speak, according to the account in the Vietnam Rural Today newspaper.
Lu said his daughter, Ro Cham H'pnhieng of the Jrai ethnic minority group, probably spent most of the time in the jungle in Cambodia since she went missing in 1989.
The loggers told Lu that they caught her after realizing that someone had sneaked up and taken their lunch.
Lu said that at first it was difficult bringing her back to normal life because she resisted showering, wearing clothes or using chopsticks, fending him off and shouting and crying.
Four days later she started cooperating, Lu said.
"It is not easy indeed but life is waiting ahead for her."
Policeman Ksor Lu long believed that his daughter had been eaten by a wild animal until last Saturday when he was told that loggers had found "a forestman" at a village in Cambodia's province of Ratanakiri.
Lu arrived and "recognized his daughter from the first sighting" even though her body was blackened and she had long hair down to her legs and could not speak, according to the account in the Vietnam Rural Today newspaper.
Lu said his daughter, Ro Cham H'pnhieng of the Jrai ethnic minority group, probably spent most of the time in the jungle in Cambodia since she went missing in 1989.
The loggers told Lu that they caught her after realizing that someone had sneaked up and taken their lunch.
Lu said that at first it was difficult bringing her back to normal life because she resisted showering, wearing clothes or using chopsticks, fending him off and shouting and crying.
Four days later she started cooperating, Lu said.
"It is not easy indeed but life is waiting ahead for her."
Fascinating, how similar it is to
ReplyDeletethe story about Half-animal woman
in Cambodia as shown below.
I hope we can learn how to treat
this case from each other as time
go by.
welcome home!
ReplyDeletelets observe the news the youn claiming the event is jhappening in its land as the case of the bomb exploded in the sea cost of cambodia which the youn also claimed that it happened its seacost as well.
ReplyDeleteEven the news youn always invade!!!
Do we share the land with Viet?
ReplyDeleteAll the police man have 2 ID, doulble citizen>
reformed the fucking Cambodian Police Force please befor the Viet install anothe Pol Pot!again
Hey, who care about name like
ReplyDeleteVietnam, Cambodia, Thailand...
call it anything you want. It
is not worth shedding blood over
it or to make anyone suffering
from it. If you do, you will
sinned against God.
Look at it this way, everyone
pay taxes in Australia. If you
live in NSW you pay that tax,
if you live eslewhere you
pay that state's tax, right?
Here if you live in Vietnam
you play tax in Vietnam and
if you live in Cambodia you
pay tax in Cambodia. So the
only differences here and
Australia is that you need
a passport and visa to cross
the border, unless you hop
the fence illegally, but
if we can make it legal
to cross the border, I don't
see any difference between
Australia and here. So, for
people that hate living in
Vietnam they can move here,
and people who hated here
can move there. So, in a way,
it is like Big Srok Khmer
with everything in it. That's
the closest we will ever
get to the big Khmer Empire.
So what, if the name and
the policies evolved. And
again, it's not worth shed
blood over this.