6-Year-Old Schoolgirl Killed Crossing Road in Siem Reap
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6-Year-Old Schoolgirl Killed Crossing Road in Siem Reap
RIP
Cambodia News, Siem Reap: (Preliminary information) On the morning of the 14 February, 2023, a 6-year-old school girl was killed in a road accident at Street 63, Village 6, Sangkat Chong Kneas, Siem Reap City, when she was coming home from school.
The little girl, Jin Rati aged 6, was crossing the busy road when she was hit by a speeding ice truck and was killed outright, much to the shock and horror of those who witnessed the tragic accident. The truck driver was immediately held in custody by local people at the scene, and he was arrested upon the arrival of the police.
Cambodia News, Siem Reap: (Preliminary information) On the morning of the 14 February, 2023, a 6-year-old school girl was killed in a road accident at Street 63, Village 6, Sangkat Chong Kneas, Siem Reap City, when she was coming home from school.
The little girl, Jin Rati aged 6, was crossing the busy road when she was hit by a speeding ice truck and was killed outright, much to the shock and horror of those who witnessed the tragic accident. The truck driver was immediately held in custody by local people at the scene, and he was arrested upon the arrival of the police.
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Re: 6-Year-Old Schoolgirl Killed Crossing Road in Siem Reap
Locals from missus’ village volunteer to be crossing guards for the local school on the National Road. Speeding car ran over one of them recently, too.
RIP little girl.
RIP little girl.
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Re: 6-Year-Old Schoolgirl Killed Crossing Road in Siem Reap
It’s rather disappointing that some heavy handed enforcement and restrictions can be displayed when someone’s fragile ego takes a minor knock and insult in a news article, but nationwide, little is done to protect the nation’s fragile young from physical hard knocks and insult resulting in tragedy.
Maybe a change in priority is required?
Maybe a change in priority is required?
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Re: 6-Year-Old Schoolgirl Killed Crossing Road in Siem Reap
IMO, change is coming, but very slowly. It requires a massive shift in thinking about priorities. This is a metaphor, but put bluntly, in Cambodia, the bigger you are, the more you have the natural right of way before others. That big thing can be a truck on the road that doesn't even look before squashing a tuktuk or even a little girl, or it can be someone who owns more, or otherwise has more clout, than the victim.Freightdog wrote: ↑Wed Feb 15, 2023 5:18 pm It’s rather disappointing that some heavy handed enforcement and restrictions can be displayed when someone’s fragile ego takes a minor knock and insult in a news article, but nationwide, little is done to protect the nation’s fragile young from physical hard knocks and insult resulting in tragedy.
Maybe a change in priority is required?
Face is important to what seems to be a ridiculous degree (to us), but it plays a part in cementing society here, and in keeping the present system in place, so is considered very important - especially by those people who think they should be respected by the hoi polloi. As foreigners, we automatically get some of this respect (generally speaking), and as an older person, I get respect for that, and because I have enough money to live on and pay other people, I also get respect for that from Cambodians.
Some other countries are the other way around, for example, in a lot of western countries, the locals look down on you if you are a foreigner, you get ignored or mistreated if you are old, and you get robbed and insulted if you look rich, or if you are a boss or landlord.
I can't speak for all expats, but this idea about "priorities in society" got me thinking.
Every society has their own priorites - some are for the communal good, and some are the fierce protection of the individual against the communal. Us humans are queer folk.
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