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“What Hell Feels Like” Acid Violence in Cambodia
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Moung Sreymom, the victim of an acid attack in Phnom Penh, Cambodia on November 19, 2015.
© 2017 Yea Khantey
The intentional use of nitric, sulfuric, or other acid in violent attacks, known as “acid attacks,” occur throughout the world but have been highly concentrated in South and Southeast Asia, including Cambodia. Perpetrators are mostly private actors seeking to inflict pain, permanently scar, or kill the victims.
“What Hell Feels Like”—based on interviews with 17 survivors of acid attacks and more than 60 relatives of survivors, lawyers, and others in Phnom Penh, Kampong Cham, and Tboung Khmum provinces—documents serious and continuing gaps in the Cambodian government’s response to acid attacks. Cambodia has seen a reduction in such attacks since 2012 when parliament passed legislation to curb the availability of acid and to provide health care and legal support to victims. However, many survivors are illegally denied treatment in public hospitals, face often insurmountable obstacles to obtaining critical pain medication, and are pressed by government officials to accept inadequate settlements out of court. Victims rarely receive meaningful compensation and those responsible for the attacks rarely go to prison.
The report calls on the Cambodian government to end interference in criminal prosecutions of acid attack cases, including by prohibiting financial settlements to drop charges. The government should urgently finalize long-promised victim and witness protection laws. It should ensure that all public hospitals abide by the legal requirement to treat victims of acid violence free of charge and reimburse hospital costs, and that all survivors of acid attacks have safe and reliable access to pain relief.
“What Hell Feels Like” Acid Violence in Cambodia