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Chamreun
Hoem Chamreun stepped out from his simple wooden hut and stretched to shake off a night of unsettled sleep. Although the sun was just rising, his neighbours were already up and about, making breakfast or heading to the fields to tend to their crops. He gazed to the north-west where Phnom Aural was partly shrouded in cloud. Tomorrow he planned to take a bike up to the park and do some hiking. He’d been here 10 days and had yet to visit the wildlife sanctuary.
The isolation and quiet of Khlong Popok was soothing, but the conflict and grief still raged inside him. The last six months had been the worst of his life. First, his beloved sister had been murdered by a Burmese thug acting on the orders of a Thai crime lord. That had led to a hunt across the region which culminated in
