You do not really notice it between elections in the U.S., the release of Ingrid and the upheavals of Afghanistan, but Cambodia is also energized.
Because here are the election in full swing. Trucks loaded with speakers grandpas-wave look-and-cigarette-to-beak and slicked teens waving flags petis crisscross the country, put up posters on all the houses amid music fete.
The other day in a village, while I was touring around for an opening goddaughter sponsorship and we talked quietly for the debts of the families, many chickens, number of acres and hectares owned by family incomes of members of households, followed by materials being paid, and "do you use soap or detergent for your toilet?" (There are no sub questions for social surveys), all eyes are suspended from a bike on a trail that passed in the horizon, and everyone exploded with laughter. The cyclist was wearing a T-shirt Sam Rainsy, a cap HUMAN RIGHT Party, and a small flag Cambodian Peoples Party.
Finally, it is a little civility to the Khmer, a friendly consensus, which does not wave. We vote as a neighbor, not to break the harmony of course, but also because the neighbor who is a member of the party, a machine to cut the wood he uses a lot for his work ... and his private affairs on the occasion.
It's not all. There are big big voltage between Cambodia and Thailand around the Preah Vihear issue just Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO.
(temple ... yes still)
Preah Vihear temple is a beautiful, located in a province far from everything, in northern Cambodia, one of those sites for which I shall soon be obliged one day return to Cambodia if I do not want to die stupid.
(red, province)
To be brief, and likely to make me pull your ears for the specialists for my dilettantism, Cambodia would benefit from the assistance of UNESCO to protect This temple located on the outskirts of the Thai border, which leads to a security perimeter around the site. Now that area proposed by the Cambodian authorities, bites on Thai territory. And Thais claim a division that does not create the security perimeter. All this amid internal political crisis in Thailand and national elections in Cambodia.
(which is great with this blog is that if you click on the pictures you can read the texts that you do not decipher as shown on the page ...) Add a touch
Ultra-minded nationalists, some soldiers soaked in alcohol that can get carried away and settle their accounts rather violently after losing at cards ... yeah, it can degenerate.
One in the next, although some contencieux arrangements for the elections. because fear of the citizen, there's nothing better for a massive vote. Look who made strong male figure, one who holds the army, and you have the winner of elections.
Like what, all things evil is good ...
is why it is the signal for battle to EDM. The staff organizes volunteers fetching bamboo without the knowledge of our full will. Eva's father comes to phone his daughter about whether she is alive. It's not so bad, it at least had the merit of us know ...
Yes, because we frankly, apart from the plugs to let parade of political parties, and two or three traffic officers a bit overwhelmed by the natural anarchy that takes riders, we did not notice much.
Anyway, Eva and I are puzzled. In Bangkok and Paris, is that they understand the geography of Cambodia.
Look at a map and you put two seconds into the shoes of a sensible voluntary Bamboo be in danger of ending up in a grilled merguez Barbec 'mountain troops, and summoned to leak more rapidly under the advice of his superiors: If
before returning to Bangkok, one must first be rappatriées in Sisophon, you speak protection!
one hand Sisophon is one of the most violent cities in Cambodia, and secondly, not to criticize, it's a bit right next to Thailand. Besides reach Bangkok by land, it means cross Poipet, a charming town that provided the cross plane, preferably overnight. While fetching the volunteers of nice bamboo, taxi, through the land border, such as "hello Khmer, the Thai's hello, be cute, stop pulling 2 minutes the time it passes through, Please", with Eva, you do not understand too. The idea of genius is to send us directly into the mouth of the wolf in case something goes wrong, it's not brilliant, brilliant.
In Phnom Penh, finally we are no worse. And then the plane, it sucks less than the road to Poipet.
short, the heckling we did just make a little more and we were forced to make our packages in 5 minutes to say goodbye by fleeing to Cambodia. Just consider this perspective, our little hearts were tight.
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