I see this old man sitting quietly on the riverfront, usually roughly across the road from the Pink Elephant pizza joint. He just sits there quietly with his broken glasses and mutters to himself, sometimes with his hat on the ground in front of him. So what, you might think...However I see many Khmers, young and often quite old, always giving him money. And just the other day I saw a monk give him money too. Does anyone know him or his background? Just curious...
Mystery man
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Some random Khmer Rouge fighter who didn't have the good sense to defect to the Vietnamese at the right time and so has fallen on hard times?
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One of hundreds of beggars around town...doubt there's actually anything special about him or his circumstances....but why don't you ask him!
I'm not a negative person, I encourage people all the time...it's usually to f**k off! But, whatever.
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He's probably just thought of as an old kru, he is respected because of his knowledge even if by now he has become itinerant. Who knows? There are a lot of these people about. Way more to come, the drought is severe.
Romantic Cambodia is dead and gone. It's with McKinley in the grave.
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