Showing posts with label khmer rouge. Show all posts
Showing posts with label khmer rouge. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Prader Willi Syndrome And Matthew Hummel

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Matthew Hummel lives in a house that has a lock on the fridge and cupboards. His parents are forced to install alarms on all windows and doors. This is not done to protect against potential intruders, but do to Matthew's house. He suffers from a disease known as Prader Willi syndrome, which is very rarely the problem.
He also suffers from low intelligence, with an IQ of 40 and an incomplete sexual development. Disorder causes him to feel hungry, so extreme that it will do practically anything to get more to eat. This syndrome can be very expensive for people who suffer from this, as well as care for them. If Matthew, ultimately, it can make him spend some time in prison.


When he could not find food in your home, Matthew went out foraging, digging into some garbage cans and watching neighbor's house for food.

"We threw the package freezer burnt pork chops," said Matthew father, Travis Hummel. "We threw them in the trash, and he found them in about a week ... and he ate that. I want to say, pork - raw pork."
This, of course, health risks Matthew will have what he's doing. One of the neighbors in the area filed a complaint that could land with Matthew burglary charge. Matthew was a gap in the house unknown neighbor, when he was a teenager and the family stated that they do not feel safe.
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Monday, July 26, 2010

Khmer Rouge Updates

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Khmer Rouge prison chief Kaing Guek EAV, who participated in the torture and murder of his brother Rob Hamill in Kiwi, was sentenced to 35 years in prison for crimes against humanity and grave breaches of the Geneva Convention.

The convictions were handed down in the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh, the UN backed war crimes tribunal in the afternoon.


EAV is also known as Duch, was the first of five senior Cambodian Khmer Rouge leaders be tried for participation in the genocide in 1970, New Zealand Herald reports.

More than 1.7 million people, a quarter of Cambodia's population died from starvation, disease, torture and executions.

New Zealand rower Rob Hamill, who lost his brother during the reign of the Khmer Rouge regime was in the courtroom in Phnom Penh today to hear the historical verdict.

Kerry Hamill was one of three foreigners captured when their boat was blown off course in Cambodian waters in 1978. All of them were tortured and killed
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