PHNOM PENH, 22 December 2010 (IRIN) - Leang Sopheap always averted his eyes when he collected alms or charity payments for his temple from villagers to hide his leprosy scars.
"I dared not to look up," he said. "All the monks laughed at me and isolated me. I stayed alone in my room for one year, and only came home during the night when nobody could see my face."
"I wanted to die," he said.
In 2004, Leang found treatment at Cambodia's only leprosy centre, the Kien Khleang National Leprosy Rehabilitation Centre, in a suburb of the capital, Phnom Penh.
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"I dared not to look up," he said. "All the monks laughed at me and isolated me. I stayed alone in my room for one year, and only came home during the night when nobody could see my face."
"I wanted to die," he said.
In 2004, Leang found treatment at Cambodia's only leprosy centre, the Kien Khleang National Leprosy Rehabilitation Centre, in a suburb of the capital, Phnom Penh.
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