May 12, 2020
Cambodian woman flees China captivity
A Cambodian woman wandering lost in Vietnam after escaping traffickers’ clutches in China has been helped to return home.

Authorities in the northern province of Thanh Hoa said they handed over Son Se Kheng, 25, to the Cambodian embassy in Vietnam as per citizen protection regulations on Monday.

A border guard patrol in Thanh Hoa’s Muong Lat District, which shares a boundary with Laos, found Kheng wandering in the area on February 29. She had no identification on her and could speak no Vietnamese. Finally, they found a local person who could speak Khmer and figured out that she was Cambodian.

Kheng said she was tricked and sold to China but escaped. Then she got lost and had been wandering on her own until she was found by the authorities.

Given the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, local authorities sent her to a centralized quarantine facility.

Ho Van Trong, director of the district’s health care center, said Son was completely free of the Covid-19 virus.

“During the first days, she was quite confused but then she became more mentally stable,” he said.

Thanh Hoa’s Foreign Affairs Department sent a document to the Bureau of Consular Affairs under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as well as the Cambodian embassy, outlining Kheng’s predicament.

On March 24, Cambodian authorities responded, confirming Son So Kheng as Cambodian citizen who resides in Chloung District, Kratie Province.
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50722302/c ... captivity/

A triumph of the human spirit.
I hope her story will be plastered all over Cambodia as a warning to all those women who are tempted to believe the beguiling stories about a rich new life in China.