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| Chea Phalla, 28, was tortured by her employers. Photograph: Photo Supplied |
Thursday, 31 May 2012
Cassandra Yeap and Phak Seangly
The Phnom Penh Post
“It is unspeakable. I pity her. I absolutely have pity on Khmer women when I see such cases”
A Malaysian couple has been charged with causing grievous harm to a Cambodian maid, a rights worker said yesterday, in the latest of a recent string of such prosecutions.
Hairdresser Tan Mong Huwai and his wife Eng Lay Sang, both 36, were charged this week with abusing Chea Phalla, 28, between August 2011 to May in Kuala Lumpur, according to Liva Sreedharan, anti-trafficking program officer at Malaysian NGO Tenaganita.
Chea Phalla had testified in a written statement that her employers had used an iron rod to beat her and forced her to drink her own urine and eat her faeces, Sreedharan said.
“The agency was alerted about the abuse and they got the employer to bring the domestic worker to the embassy. The embassy then brought her to the hospital upon seeing her injuries,” she added.
If found guilty, the couple faces 20 years in prison and a fine or whipping.
Cambodian embassy official Chhay Kosal said Chea Phalla was still recuperating in hospital, breaking down slightly as he recounted her injuries.
“It is unspeakable. I pity her. I absolutely have pity on Khmer women when I see such cases,” he said, adding that Chea Phalla had worked in Malaysia for two years. The embassy had worked together with the recruitment agency, Cambodian Labor Supply, to bring the case to court, he said.
The embassy has assisted and repatriated more than 10 maids this month.
The charges come a month after Malaysian employers Soh Chew Tong and Chin Chui Ling were charged with murder.
Their maid, Mey Sichan, 24, died in March of suspected starvation and physical abuse, police have told the Post.
Sreedharan said the recent prosecutions showed awareness of abuses had been heightened by the ban on Cambodian maids to Malaysia – imposed in October after a rash of abuses surfaced there.
“There is more prosecution, more willing to be witnesses, to speak up and assist these girls in getting to the embassy,” she said.
7 comments:
AH HUN SEN is a sick fuck mother fucker because he is willing to send dirt poor Cambodian women to die in foreign country which Cambodia doesn't even have war with! If the mother fucker doesn't know how to create job then what else is there to do besides holding on to his job as a dictator? This mother fucker is getting too old and too tired to reinvent himself and the whole Cambodia and he is outdated!
The person who should eat faeces and drink urine is Mi Meh Chrouk Hun Sen Bunrany and Mer Ah Hun Sen(AK Sdech Korn Dach Kbal)
DUMB Khmer deserves to be treated like dogs for votting for CPP. When will DUMB Khmer will to stand up.
What a fucking MUSLIM!
Ah Hun Sen are sending Khmer people
to abroad and bringing 6,000,000
Vietnamese to Cambodia.
He lets 20,000 Vietcong to live in
seven Vietnam rubber plant fields.
Khmer people must rise up and kill
ah Hun Sen,his clans and Vietnamese
in Cambodia.
Gentlemen, PM Hun Sen can't control foreigners animals. Be fair ok. I don't supported Hun Sen or CPP but these Asian animals foreigners are cruel to any poor helpless human. These poor Khmer women were poor so they had to go to foreign country to work. Most ok some turn out like this. PM need to create more jobs in Cambodia so thes poor soul Khmers don't have to be treated like this. Here are only my opinions that can help solve some of these joblessness:
1. PM needs to eliminated a lot of foreigners who get paid very high to work in our country as government advisers, NGO workers, state construction projets, factories management positions, recruit more soldiers to strength our borders.
2. PM needs to start training these Khmers to do these jobs that foreigners are doing right now in our country. Have them train Khmer how to do their jobs. Pay them so high to train Khmer that they can't resisted.
3. Have a real independent auditors to find corruption officials and wasteful spending and put these money back into building infrasture projects and hire most Khmers. Can hire foreigners ONLY when we have to.
4. Strength our embassies staffs with strong lawyers to bring these foreign animals to justice when they do these things. This can discourage anyone in the futures.
PM Hun Sen? PM Mer Eing Ei? Ah Sror Kei Yoeur
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