{"id":11565,"date":"2022-08-09T13:49:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-09T13:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.smilinggecko.ch\/story\/die-jugendlichen-rattenjaeger-von-phnom-penh\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T11:56:22","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T11:56:22","slug":"die-jugendlichen-rattenjaeger-von-phnom-penh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.smilinggecko.de\/en\/die-jugendlichen-rattenjaeger-von-phnom-penh\/","title":{"rendered":"The youth rat hunters of Phnom Penh"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"11565\" class=\"elementor elementor-11565 elementor-7780\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-2dbd184f elementor-section-full_width elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"2dbd184f\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-no\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-5f13fa79\" data-id=\"5f13fa79\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7c389280 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"7c389280\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div>Background information Cambodia<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5f2760cd elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"5f2760cd\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">The youth rat hunters of Phnom Penh<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7c48933 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"7c48933\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWhere Cambodian meat and fish traders peddle their wares under questionable hygienic conditions during the day, young people sneak through the deserted places at night. Hannes Schmid has followed them with a cameraman.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5e9c2901 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"5e9c2901\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe boys aged 8 to 18 are armed. However, they do not pose any danger. They are out in the markets to hunt rats, which are plentiful here. They kill the rodents with primitive home-made harpoons, which they then sell to traders. They use it to make the questionable meat ingredient in their beefball soup. 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