songtansally wrote: You'd better hope it's not your corpse on the ground one day with 50 Khmer's smartphones trained on you.
Life just don't mean that much here.
I have been through that experience. After a very serious road accident I had two Khmer guys picked me up and took me to Calmette. When I eventually left nothing had been stolen. My wallet and phone were intact. The police had taken my bike and I retrieved it from the station two months later. Again nothing was missing.
Concerning the value of life, life means a lot to the family group, outside that it is often a case of someone else's problem. Families will go to extreme measures to assist their own. In the health sector I have seen it extend well beyond that. For example the staff in the hospital I was in charge of here many years ago put in a lot of hard work to improve the facility, in addition to contributing to patient well being and despite the abysmal wage they got at the time. I realise that health service delivery now is variable, but it is streets ahead of what it was. There are now some good facilities with competent staff who do know what they are doing.
Maybe newkidontheblock would like to chip in here