The withdrawn young woman at the police station (Photo: Ratanak)Tuesday, May 08, 2007
Upset about joblessness, a young woman attempted to kill herself by jumping from a bridge
Koh Santepheap newspaper
Translated from Khmer by Heng Soy
Phnom Penh – A young woman undergoing life crisis was found traveling on the Chrauy Changvar bridge trying to jump from there for suicide, at 9:15 AM on 07 May. However, she was not able to jump yet when the police arrived and prevented her from doing it. She was later taken to the police station. She told police that her name is Neb Phalla, and she is a 23-year-old farmer from Trapeang Korng village, Trapeang Kranhoung commune, Tram Kak district, Takeo province.
Regarding her suicide attempt, she said that she was upset about poverty, and when she arrived in Phnom Penh to look for a job, she couldn’t find any. According to police guarding the bridge, in the morning of the incident, the young woman was seen walking back and forth on the eatern side of the bridge deck, as if she was undecided whether to jump off the bridge or not. Her suspicious activities led police to stop her and question her. She confessed that she came to the bridge to jump off and kill herself. The police then sent her to the Sangkat Chrauy Changvar office so that someone helps her find a job.
At the office, the young woman sadly confessed that she came from Takeo province, and her family is very poor with 5 children (4 girls and 1 boy), and that she is the oldest one in the family. Because of poverty, her mother forced her to travel to Phnom Penh to find a factory job. Since arriving in Phnom Penh in the past 8 days, she lived with a friend near a garment factory in Chom Chao district, and her friend is helping her find a job. However, she said that nobody accepted her to work because she does not have an identification card. Since she couldn’t find work, and of the 40,000 riels (~$8) her mother gave her for traveling expenses, she only has 5,000 riels left (~$1.25), she couldn’t pay the bus fare to return back home, so she had the shortsightedness to hire a moto-dop to take her to bridge so she can jump off and kill herself.
The young woman said that she cannot return home because her mother will surely scold her. Right now, all that she wants is to find a job, any job will do, except for selling her body and stealing. She is the 9th person this year to attempt to kill herself from the bridge.
Upset about joblessness, a young woman attempted to kill herself by jumping from a bridge
Koh Santepheap newspaper
Translated from Khmer by Heng Soy
Phnom Penh – A young woman undergoing life crisis was found traveling on the Chrauy Changvar bridge trying to jump from there for suicide, at 9:15 AM on 07 May. However, she was not able to jump yet when the police arrived and prevented her from doing it. She was later taken to the police station. She told police that her name is Neb Phalla, and she is a 23-year-old farmer from Trapeang Korng village, Trapeang Kranhoung commune, Tram Kak district, Takeo province.
Regarding her suicide attempt, she said that she was upset about poverty, and when she arrived in Phnom Penh to look for a job, she couldn’t find any. According to police guarding the bridge, in the morning of the incident, the young woman was seen walking back and forth on the eatern side of the bridge deck, as if she was undecided whether to jump off the bridge or not. Her suspicious activities led police to stop her and question her. She confessed that she came to the bridge to jump off and kill herself. The police then sent her to the Sangkat Chrauy Changvar office so that someone helps her find a job.
At the office, the young woman sadly confessed that she came from Takeo province, and her family is very poor with 5 children (4 girls and 1 boy), and that she is the oldest one in the family. Because of poverty, her mother forced her to travel to Phnom Penh to find a factory job. Since arriving in Phnom Penh in the past 8 days, she lived with a friend near a garment factory in Chom Chao district, and her friend is helping her find a job. However, she said that nobody accepted her to work because she does not have an identification card. Since she couldn’t find work, and of the 40,000 riels (~$8) her mother gave her for traveling expenses, she only has 5,000 riels left (~$1.25), she couldn’t pay the bus fare to return back home, so she had the shortsightedness to hire a moto-dop to take her to bridge so she can jump off and kill herself.
The young woman said that she cannot return home because her mother will surely scold her. Right now, all that she wants is to find a job, any job will do, except for selling her body and stealing. She is the 9th person this year to attempt to kill herself from the bridge.
6 comments:
Yep, and that is not the first
time I heard or read about it.
These type of people don't give
a damn about governance, democracy,
..., or human rights crap. All
they wanted is all their leaders to
work together to bring them jobs.
That is all they wanted. Is that
too much too ask?
You can ask Ah Hun Sen where is the "equality" of life that he is talking about...
If there is there would not be this kind of headline...
Do they have "equality" of life
in the US? And I bet you also want
to tell us that you are making the
same salary as GW Bush, don't you?
There are certain part of Cambodian economy that need to be subsidized by the government to create some jobs for Cambodian people to do which will give some meaning to their life!!!!
Cambodian people will be proud of how they can earn the money by themselves!! Once they are proud of themselves and have the confident and soon they will start something new such business to create more opprotunity for other to do!!!Why can STUPID CAMBODIAN GOVERNMENT give Cambodian people a fucken chance!!!!
Stupid CAmbodian government should know by now that they can't depend everything on the foreigners to hire all Cambodian people to work!!!
Oh well! So much for the Rectangular economic strategy and here is the result!ahhahahah
Sheeiit, the Khmer government is
already broken their 2007's budget,
and we are not even halfway into
the year yet. How many more
employees you want us to hire, you
morons?
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