Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Child trafficking in Cambodia: Trial and tribulation

Excerpt from "The Limits of Seeing"

February 24, 2010
An Interview with Photojournalist Tim Freccia
By Lorna Tychostup and photographs by Tim Freccia
Chronogram

My next big story was child trafficking—Cambodia to Thailand—wild stuff. There’s a big casino complex in Poipet—a one horse, dirt road town on the border with a mega-big, modern casino complex. Asians go there to gamble and child trafficking is rampant. I got an amazing hidden identity interview with a Cambodian border official who stated, “Actually my commander’s involved.” Then I got an interview with his commander, on camera, saying, “There’s no trafficking here.”

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