Friday, September 23, 2011

Flood in Siem Reap

Villagers tried to save their belongings from their houses (All Photos: Hang Savyouth, Radio Free Asia)

Villagers tried to save anyhting they can

Villagers trying to reach safety

Stranded villagers climbed on trees to reach safety

Some villagers had to escape through a hole in their roof

Water flooded the road to Banteay Srey temple

Tourists queued up to board rescue chopper

Tourists rescued out of flooded area

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

cambodia should build more baray to stock this water for later usage, etc, you know! remember how the khmer kings of angkor took advantage of this seasonal flood back in the day of angkor! well, cambodia should learn some engineering skills from the ancient khmer empire, really! build the barays to stock the water for summer days usage, ok! water is precious to life on earth, so, do something about control waters, you know!

Anonymous said...

11;44pm
you better tell the ignorant blind man hun sen to learn how.

Anonymous said...

First picture...

Guy on the right: "Heng Soy, are you masterbating?"

Guy in the front: "shhh, yes I am?

Girl: "WTF!"

Anonymous said...

where are all the boats? cambodia is a water country, yet there not one boat in site at all, you know! wake up, people, time to supply cambodia with modern boats for rescue, etc, ok!

Anonymous said...

I do not see any one in uniform rescued Khmer folks but the foreigners and tourists in these pictures. Why? Don't the government help rescued the Khmer folks?

Anonymous said...

Those people with money who stranded on a higher ground, they were evacuated via choppers, while these poor Khmer stranded (pictured) with small tree to hang on waiting awaiting for the death. Why is justice.

Fuck the Cambodian regime. You are far worse than during the Pol Pot era.

Anonymous said...

Nice to see how Cambodians are still smilling and happy despite all their problems.

mari said...

Why is it, "this is not world news"??
& why are they evacuating tourists only....god help the villagers left behind.