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Tha Sophat, a 20-month-old Cambodian boy, smile after suckling from a cow in Koak Roka village, Siem Reap province, Cambodia, Friday, Sept. 9, 2011. Tha Sophat started suckling the cow in July after he saw a calf do the same since his parents moved to Thailand in search of work, said his grandfather UmOeung. Photo: Heng Sinith / AP
Tha Sophat, a 20-month-old boy, suckles from a cow in Koak Roka village, Siem Reap province, Cambodia.
Tha Sophat, a 20-month-old Cambodian boy, suckles from a cow in Koak Roka village, Siem Reap province, Cambodia, Friday, Sept. 9, 2011. Tha Sophat started suckling the cow in July after he saw a calf do the same since his parents moved to Thailand in search of work, said his grandfather Um Oeung. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)Associated Press
A Cambodian man says his young grandson has lived partly on milk he suckles directly from a cow since the boy's parents left their rural village in search of work.
Um Oeung says 20-month-old Tha Sophat started suckling the cow in July after he saw a calf do the same.
Um Oeung told The Associated Press he pulled the boy away at first. He relented after his grandson protested loudly and the boy has suckled the cow's milk once or twice a day since then.
Tha Sophat has lived with his grandparents in Siem Reap province in northwest Cambodia since his parents moved to Thailand looking for work.
Um Oeung said Friday the cow doesn't mind the boy suckling but he is worried about his grandson's health if he continues. See more pictures here.
Um Oeung says 20-month-old Tha Sophat started suckling the cow in July after he saw a calf do the same.
Um Oeung told The Associated Press he pulled the boy away at first. He relented after his grandson protested loudly and the boy has suckled the cow's milk once or twice a day since then.
Tha Sophat has lived with his grandparents in Siem Reap province in northwest Cambodia since his parents moved to Thailand looking for work.
Um Oeung said Friday the cow doesn't mind the boy suckling but he is worried about his grandson's health if he continues. See more pictures here.
9 comments:
That's doesn't appear right. Ever thought about milking that cow first, before you drink its milk? There is nothing wrong with drinking milk from the cow but don't do it literally, geeezzzz...That kid is going to be well known in his village when he grows up.
Not only well know in his village, but around the world because this article has been published in many major newspapers around the world. But it is sort of sad, parents went away to seek work leaving him parentless and no milk to surive and need to survive of fresh cow milk like this.
at least he is smarter then his parent to stay alive.
Clever Kid, Perfectly normal to me, its only natural, This kid will be blessed with the world. as he has grown up with nothing.
In Germany´s leading Newspaper SPIEGEL the story is only published as a joke: "Look what an clever boy"
And it is mentioned that the small boy lives with his grandparents because his parents went to make money in Thailand, so the boy saw what the small cow baby did and just imitated that behaviour.
They told him not to drink from the cow, but he insisted to do so.
Very scary comments on KI-Media, by the way.
I am afraid of cow has infection or virus because its skin has never been clean or wash.
Why even publish this kind of stupid article anyway. This only bring more stigma on Cambodia ever impoverish images. Pol Pot, Killing Field, etc. There are many unusual and bullshit news similar to that of Cambodia in other countries, but they're not going to use that against their own images. Cambodian media need to be very mindful of what they're printing and exposing.
The picture above is real image of
poverty and deprivation of majority of Cambodian farmers in the rural area.It is sign of a social failure,uncared society. It is a picture of far cry contrast of rural people and the get rich quick elite in Phnom Penh.
Thousand of hectares of rubber plantation land have been sold to Hanoi. Hun said," it is good for the economy". Can't we grow them by our selves?
Cambodia have been reduced to nation that our people become slaves or refuges in our own country.
Now we have learned that one million Cambodian people have been working as slaves in Thailand and Malaysia,MANY WERE ABUSED AND EVEN KILLED.This is clearly a direct effect of Hun's politics COUNTRY FOR SALE. Cambodian people have been pushed to meet extreme poverty and Tha Sophat,little 20 months, boy's family is one among those millions that have been suffered by Hun's politics.
Is Cambodia still be called a golden country? A kingdom of wonder?
True Khmer
This boy will be strong like OX! He should name to...Preah KO!
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