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A red zone resident cooks while reading a news report which claims that Cambodian workers have gone hungry because of the extended lockdown. Photo supplied
Lost in translation: ‘Starvation’ in capital’s designated red zones
Mon, 3 May 2021
“DACH bay” is a Khmer slang meaning a “loss of income”, that could also be literally translated to «deprived of rice”, which alludes to starvation. However, civil society organisation (CSO) officials have independently confirmed the government’s prior assertions that there are no cases of starvation in Phnom Penh’s red zones because the government and the municipal authorities, as well as some CSOs themselves, continue to provide food assistance to people living in the highly restricted areas.
Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Veng Sakhon through the ASEAN Plus Three Emergency Rice Reserve (APTERR) secretariat on April 30 provided 78 tonnes of rice to the Phnom Penh municipality for distribution to people living in restricted zones.