Cambodia's acid attack victims appeal for justice

Acid attacks are becoming more and more common in Cambodia

Acid attacks leave the victims in need of long-term medical care

Monday, 22 March 2010
By Guy Delauney
BBC News, Phnom Penh

Som Bunnarith adjusts his wrap-around sunglasses, turns on the Casio and gives the keys an experimental tinkle.

Satisfied that everything is working as it should, he fires up the drum machine and, as his hands move across the instrument, he starts to croon in an easy-on-the-ear tenor.

Yet Bunnarith is not a professional musician. He only took up keyboards and singing as therapy after what he calls "the incident".

It seems an innocuous word for such an horrific and life-changing event. Bunnarith's wife believed that he had been having an affair with another woman; in a fit of jealousy she threw acid over her husband.

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