Jiri Zivny, an aid worker in Cambodia, died from his injuries on Thursday after he was attacked and left for dead last week. (Courtesy of Monty Aldoff)Thursday, January 15, 2009
CBC News (Canada)
A Canadian humanitarian worker from Kamloops, B.C., has died from injuries sustained when he was robbed in Cambodia last week.
Jiri Zivny died at 5:15 p.m. local time Thursday at Phnom Penh's Calmette hospital, where he was being treated for severe head wounds, a doctor told his friend Evelyn Picklyk in an email.
Zivny was attacked after withdrawing money from a bank machine on Friday and left for dead on the street, his friend Monty Aldoff told CBC News on Tuesday.
Dr. Reid Sheftall, who was not personally treating Zivny but was looking in on the case, said he noticed Zivny's heart rate had been low earlier Thursday.
Turned life around to work with orphans
Zivny's friend Monty Aldoff told CBC Radio he wanted Zivny to be remembered as someone who turned his life around.
"He was one that went through many struggles in his life, but turned his life around and started doing worthwhile things in his life," Aldoff said.
Zivny was a member of a humanitarian mission that travelled to southeast Asia in mid-November, delivering medical supplies to orphans on behalf of the International Humanitarian Hope Society.
Most of the group returned to B.C. over Christmas. Zivny and another worker stayed on in Cambodia to work with the orphans for another month, members of the team told CBC.
Zivny's medical insurance had expired before the attack. News of his death came as Picklyk and others were trying to raise funds to bring him back to Canada for treatment.
Friends vow to continue charity work
As they try to deal with the tragic news, the group is now raising money to bring Zivny's body back to Canada,
"We are just, we are beside ourselves right now," said Aldoff.
But despite the horrific attack, the group still plans to continue working in South East Asia, he said.
"We believe our mission there is a worthwhile mission. For anyone who doesn't think so, they have to see the faces of these little children — the joy they get when we go to bring them gifts, and bring them food and medical supplies," said Aldoff.
Jiri Zivny died at 5:15 p.m. local time Thursday at Phnom Penh's Calmette hospital, where he was being treated for severe head wounds, a doctor told his friend Evelyn Picklyk in an email.
Zivny was attacked after withdrawing money from a bank machine on Friday and left for dead on the street, his friend Monty Aldoff told CBC News on Tuesday.
Dr. Reid Sheftall, who was not personally treating Zivny but was looking in on the case, said he noticed Zivny's heart rate had been low earlier Thursday.
Turned life around to work with orphans
Zivny's friend Monty Aldoff told CBC Radio he wanted Zivny to be remembered as someone who turned his life around.
"He was one that went through many struggles in his life, but turned his life around and started doing worthwhile things in his life," Aldoff said.
Zivny was a member of a humanitarian mission that travelled to southeast Asia in mid-November, delivering medical supplies to orphans on behalf of the International Humanitarian Hope Society.
Most of the group returned to B.C. over Christmas. Zivny and another worker stayed on in Cambodia to work with the orphans for another month, members of the team told CBC.
Zivny's medical insurance had expired before the attack. News of his death came as Picklyk and others were trying to raise funds to bring him back to Canada for treatment.
Friends vow to continue charity work
As they try to deal with the tragic news, the group is now raising money to bring Zivny's body back to Canada,
"We are just, we are beside ourselves right now," said Aldoff.
But despite the horrific attack, the group still plans to continue working in South East Asia, he said.
"We believe our mission there is a worthwhile mission. For anyone who doesn't think so, they have to see the faces of these little children — the joy they get when we go to bring them gifts, and bring them food and medical supplies," said Aldoff.
12 comments:
sorry....thats fucked up...........they should find the people that did this and give them a life sentenced in cambodian prisons.......................the cambodian police has to get off there ass and catch the guys that did this...........so messed up......heart goes out to his family ................................... REST IN PEACE MY FRIEND
This how thing turned out under this hanoi's cpp regime. They been in power too long, too currupted to allow this kind of thing happened.
May God bless this man with such a giving heart 10 times he gives to khmer.
this another game of authority to play down to human right watch.they are trying to hurt un worker as the case of robbery .
white people if you still supports these khmer rouge to rule over Cambodia, you will die this way long. dont blame khmer rouge cpp, you all contribute to it and guilt for crimes in Cambodia
Hey, 3:57 AM. You have such a good common about white people. Sure, don't blame khmer rouge CPP!! coz they had came by their own.
3:57 AM, your comment is great view that I really don't know to describe. But I can say this, "Fuck you, man". You are next!!!!
If you can not empathize, say nothing. Go to hell!!!
Sorry for the bad news.
That's Hun Sen regime!
The one-eye gangster Viet puppet Hun Sen regime in Phnom Penh does not care about Khmer.
Ah Hun Sen will let all those Khmers left over from the Killing Fields die systematically while moving the Viet populace in, assisting them and caring for them as per the secret agreements and treaties ah Hun Sen had signed with the Viet.
So please don't talk about the future of Khmer and Khmer's children anymore. There will not be native Khmers left to care for or to worry about anymore. Look at what the life expectancy of all of those Khmers in the country now - Anybody knows?
In the end, there will be just Viet in Cambodia and maybe a very few Khmer left over but vietnamized from head to toe....
Look around in Phnom Penh now...and tell me what you see...
If all of you SOB want to help Cambodia, you'd better do it and do it pretty soon...or you will have nothing left to save at all...
Hope all of you SOB gets this message!!!
the one posted comment condemning the white people are paving ways for their master youn puppets to succeed toward totalitarian regime. that reminds about what is happening in Zimbabwe...and deeper such commentators aim to isolate khmers from the world--to pave path for Vietnamization in Cambodia.
and you think you this smart can stir the forum here? better beg phd from your viet youn masters motherfucker! You will only make khmers strong to understand deeply and wisely from your so-called low life communist tricks.....
Get lost and go hide in your holes motherfucker!
(8:15) Your poor choice of words doesn't encourage no one...... not even yourself. I feel sorry for those as well as myself for having stumbled on your post. I feel your frustration! I encourage you to work on your motovational skills before future posting.
"He paid the ultimate price for his unselfish act and contribution." Rest in peace my friend!
MY CONDOLENCE AND WITH DEEPEST SYMPATHY TO THE ZIVNY FAMILY.
This case has Long Beach signature all over it.
In that case, just ask Ah Scam Rainxy. Many of his supporters are from Long Beach. However, I doubt that Ah Scam Rainxy will talk because he's the master mind of the crime.
12:59PM,
Your mother still a whore in SVY PAK BROTHEL..remembered? why don't you go fuck her smelly pussy instead of barking..?? Ah Pleu undersea!, stop using fake marriage to get here also! Pouk Ah Mok krass undersea!!
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