Funeral Rice Wine Kills Eleven Mourners

CEOCambodiaNews · Post by **CEOCambodiaNews** » Sun Jul 04, 2021 3:49 pm

11 die in Cambodia after drinking toxic hooch at funeral

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PHNOM PENH (AFP) - Eleven Cambodian villagers died after drinking rice wine suspected to be toxic during a funeral, a police officer said on Sunday (July 4), adding to the kingdom's growing recent death toll from unsafe homemade alcohol.

In the past two months, more than 30 people have died in three separate incidents across Cambodia from home-brewed rice wine containing methanol, a highly toxic liquid that can cause blindness if ingested.

Since Friday, 11 people who attended a funeral in coastal Kampot province - about 155km from the capital Phnom Penh - died, while 10 more were hospitalised after imbibing homemade wine.

"The victims suffered dizziness after drinking the liquor," a police officer told AFP, adding that samples were collected for investigation.

Homemade rice wine is popular in rural Cambodia at wedding parties, village festivals and funerals as a cheap alternative to commercially produced drinks.

But there is little regulation of the informal brewers, and headlines regularly pop up of mass deaths from a single celebration or village event.

Last month, at least 15 rice wine brewers and sellers were arrested, while the Health Ministry has renewed calls for people to avoid drinking contaminated beverages.
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Bitte_Kein_Lexus · Post by **Bitte_Kein_Lexus** » Sun Jul 04, 2021 4:03 pm

Someone should have kept a tally. I swear in the last 1.5 years there have been 70+ deaths due to bad rice wine.

BillDoe · Post by **BillDoe** » Sun Jul 04, 2021 4:28 pm

I feel as if the family will somehow justify the deaths as "so and so" obviously did not like them and Buddha (praise him, don't get me big dog) struck them down for giving whoever died a bad time while living

John Bingham · Post by **John Bingham** » Sun Jul 04, 2021 4:46 pm

BillDoe wrote: ↑Sun Jul 04, 2021 4:28 pm I feel as if the family will somehow justify the deaths as "so and so" obviously did not like them and Buddha (praise him, don't get me big dog) struck them down for giving whoever died a bad time while living

Have you ever actually heard any local say something like that? I haven't.

Anchor Moy · Post by **Anchor Moy** » Sun Jul 04, 2021 5:16 pm

Bitte_Kein_Lexus wrote: ↑Sun Jul 04, 2021 4:03 pm Someone should have kept a tally. I swear in the last 1.5 years there have been 70+ deaths due to bad rice wine.

Yeah, and that would only include the people who died from drinking. It doesn't include all the victims of rice-wine madness who get their homes burnt down or get attacked with a machete.
Without doing a search, here are the "similar topics" listed at the bottom of the page.

And from memory, there have been quite a few cases of wives being killed because husband was off his face on rice wine, (and the woman had refused him money for drink, or sex, or she told him off for being a drunkard.)

John Bingham · Post by **John Bingham** » Sun Jul 04, 2021 5:23 pm

It's a dodgy liquor. I haven't touched it in years because it has a similar effect to whiskey for me, blackouts and weird aggressive behavior. You would think people would avoid it with so many deaths reported, but then there were a few reports over the years of one or two people who died from it and then the funeral party drank the same brews and loads of them died. WTF.

Post by **Clutch Cargo** » Sun Jul 04, 2021 5:28 pm

BillDoe wrote: ↑Sun Jul 04, 2021 4:28 pm I feel as if the family will somehow justify the deaths as "so and so" obviously did not like them and Buddha (praise him, don't get me big dog) struck them down for giving whoever died a bad time while living

That's a particularly crass post on a death topic without any foundation and disparaging of khmers. Come to think of it..a lot of your posts come over as trollish. Take 24 hrs off.

Kammekor · Post by **Kammekor** » Sun Jul 04, 2021 5:58 pm

John Bingham wrote: ↑Sun Jul 04, 2021 5:23 pm It's a dodgy liquor. I haven't touched it in years because it has a similar effect to whiskey for me, blackouts and weird aggressive behavior. You would think people would avoid it with so many deaths reported, but then there were a few reports over the years of one or two people who died from it and then the funeral party drank the same brews and loads of them died. WTF.

My neighbors tend to drink ricewine. Main reason is the price (2000r for half a liter), another is they believe it's local brew...

One neighbor even makes his own from the local ricewine. He mixes it with black sesame seeds in a large bottle and starts drinking it after a week or three. He's loved by the men in the neighborhood for this.

When they want to spurge they will do so on Ganzberg beer because it's the cheapest and has so many lucky draws.

I try to avoid both the ricewine (easy) and the Ganzberg (much more difficult).

BillDoe · Post by **BillDoe** » Mon Jul 05, 2021 5:30 pm

John Bingham wrote: ↑Sun Jul 04, 2021 4:46 pm
BillDoe wrote: ↑Sun Jul 04, 2021 4:28 pm I feel as if the family will somehow justify the deaths as "so and so" obviously did not like them and Buddha (praise him, don't get me big dog) struck them down for giving whoever died a bad time while living
Have you ever actually heard any local say something like that? I haven't.

Yes, I've heard plenty of locals discussing someone's karma and getting what they deserve. I'm not saying that is what happened to the ones who passed, we may never know.

Kammekor · Post by **Kammekor** » Mon Jul 05, 2021 7:05 pm

BillDoe wrote: ↑Mon Jul 05, 2021 5:30 pm
John Bingham wrote: ↑Sun Jul 04, 2021 4:46 pm
BillDoe wrote: ↑Sun Jul 04, 2021 4:28 pm I feel as if the family will somehow justify the deaths as "so and so" obviously did not like them and Buddha (praise him, don't get me big dog) struck them down for giving whoever died a bad time while living
Have you ever actually heard any local say something like that? I haven't.
Yes, I've heard plenty of locals discussing someone's karma and getting what they deserve. I'm not saying that is what happened to the ones who passed, we may never know.

I've been in Cambodia for nearly twelve years now and managed to speak the local lingo. Despite many foreigners claiming Cambodians pay a lot of attention to / value 'karma' a lot I have never ever overheard them discuss it.

So your experience doesn't match mine.

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