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| FELLOW SUFFERERS: Rany and her child, left; and a Thai woman in Si Sa Ket province. |
Villagers on both sides are suffering – and if claims that cluster bombs were deployed prove true, then the pain could be felt for years to come
20/02/2011
Hurley Scroggins and staff reporters
Bangkok Post
Two weeks after the shelling began, life has yet to return to normal in Svay Chrum village, four kilometres south of the frontline on the Cambodian side of the border dispute.
Dwellings sit empty, leaving evidence of a quick departure along with clothes hanging on fences and abandoned bicycles.
There were 250 families in this area; now there are five, said shopkeeper Rany who came back two days after her home was nearly hit by conventional artillery on Feb 7.
”We are the risk-takers, the people who have property to protect. I hear from the camps that everyone wants to come back, but they are still afraid of the situation here,” she said.
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