Koh Pich stampede - five years on
Koh Pich stampede - five years on
Tomorrow marks the fifth anniversary of the bridge stampede that killed 347 people. I wasn't in Cambodia at the time but it was huge news even in the UK where I was working at the time.
What do people remember of that night? Did you know people who were directly or indirectly involved or affected by it?
Curiously I can't find a Khmer440 thread on the subject. I'm sure there must have been one running at the time. If someone finds it, could they post a link to it or resurrect it please?
What do people remember of that night? Did you know people who were directly or indirectly involved or affected by it?
Curiously I can't find a Khmer440 thread on the subject. I'm sure there must have been one running at the time. If someone finds it, could they post a link to it or resurrect it please?
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This thread is an eyewitness account, written much later. Can't believe this is the only thread about it though...
http://www.khmer440.com/chat_forum/view ... se#p187737
http://www.khmer440.com/chat_forum/view ... se#p187737
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One thing i do remember about all of that is Russian Market selling DVDs soon after of videos and pictures of all those poor cunts slowly dying under each other. Quite fucking macabre.
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Faces of Death IVCaptain Bonez wrote:One thing i do remember about all of that is Russian Market selling DVDs soon after of videos and pictures of all those poor cunts slowly dying under each other. Quite fucking macabre.
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I was in PP that night, getting pissed close to Oh Russei, around 11 PM I saw worrying news on the TV in the bar but the full scope wasn't clear to me. Next morning I was called by family and friends worried as hell, and I realized something big happened last night. The atmosphere in Phnom Penh was really sad the days after, so sad that I fled the scene and drove my moto to Kampong Cham. The whole day on television and radio you'd hear the names of people who'd donated money, and the amount donated. Really depressing.
Also, prices of bananas went through the roof. Everybody was looking for bananas, to chase the ghosts away... The next day hardly any bananas available in Phnom Penh/Cambodia.
Also, prices of bananas went through the roof. Everybody was looking for bananas, to chase the ghosts away... The next day hardly any bananas available in Phnom Penh/Cambodia.
My mrs, and others, still say the death toll was much higher, stories of families being given $ to keep quiet.
The less credible rumours involved pig and croc farms. I'd been here a couple of weeks ans was in siem reap/battambang when it was kicking off.
The less credible rumours involved pig and croc farms. I'd been here a couple of weeks ans was in siem reap/battambang when it was kicking off.
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I remember families complaining that when they went to the hospitals to claim their relatives' bodies, they were being charged $100.
Then HE intervened saying that he didn't believe that any Khmer could do this, and it stopped.
RIP.
Then HE intervened saying that he didn't believe that any Khmer could do this, and it stopped.
RIP.
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Some of my students at the time were there. They also said that the death toll was likely higher than the official version. They also said (which everyone now knows) that men and boys were trampling over women and girls in their efforts to 'save' their own skins. Still, at least the press showed pics of Tears of a Clown,
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I saw it on a TV in Bangkok and returned the next day. All I remember us the bridge covered in thongs and bits of clothing. I don't why the death toll would have been officially downgraded. Three hundred or five hundred is equally shocking surely. Thank god there hasn't been a water festival since.
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Photos of the 2014 water festival here.ken svay wrote: Thank god there hasn't been a water festival since.
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I wish I had something profound to say. I wish I had some great insight to offer. I wish I could say why all this happened. I wish I could blame the Cambodian police for failing to control the crowds beforehand, letting too many people on the bridge, taking bribes to let people through, for their incompetence, for firing shots and using water cannons contributing to the panic and rush. I wish I could blame shoddy workmanship for electrocuting people and starting the panic. I wish I could be as callous as KI Media, immediately taking political advantage, calling for resignations and blaming the 'Yuon.' I wish I could blame the Khmers for being gawkers and rubberneckers and running toward the panicking crowd to see what was happening. I wish I could blame some "big black guy with an American accent" for pushing people around rather than helping. I wish I could blame the endemic corruption and greed in this society for ill-conceived plans and poor design. I wish I could be angry at the government for praising and giving the police a pass just hours after the tragedy. I wish I could fault the Prime Minister for trying to write it off as "just an accident" before knowing what really happened. I wish I could blame the Bayon stage for continuing to blast music through the whole thing. I wish I could blame bad luck, karma or fate for turning this heartless way. I wish I could blame God for allowing this evil to happen. I wish I could rail against somebody or something. I wish I could put this all on somebody else. Somehow it would seem that might help alleviate the sorrow over this disaster, if only a bit. But at this point we don't know exactly what happened or why. And recriminations, though understandable from those directly affected, are for the rest of us at this point only self-serving and perhaps unfair and damaging. I can only feel for the people that have been killed and injured and their families and loved ones who are suffering horrible loss at this very moment. The dead women and children, the families destroyed. I am haunted by the image a man crying over his dead child, happiness only a moment before. I can only try to empathize with the grief and pain they must be feeling and offer my deepest most heartfelt sympathies. It's the only thing of which I am certain and all I have right now, as little and inadequate as it is. - Nov 23, 2010
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This Al Jazeera article claims 410 people were killed but this article published 2 days later reports that 347 people died. I sent them an email and will update if I receive a reply.
I first learned of the tragedy at 5am the next morning when my girlfriend's (now wife) sister called to check up on her. We went to see the sight for ourselves later that day and the police had closed the roads around nagaworld but you could walk up there.
I remember seeing bananas and incense everywhere for a few days after that.
I first learned of the tragedy at 5am the next morning when my girlfriend's (now wife) sister called to check up on her. We went to see the sight for ourselves later that day and the police had closed the roads around nagaworld but you could walk up there.
I remember seeing bananas and incense everywhere for a few days after that.
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