Many traumatized women and children would often come to the hotel to beg for food.

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Hundreds of impoverished farmers trekked to Phnom Penh to beg for food.

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"Now we have to beg for food and the local community gives us some food and that's how we survive -- we have nothing else, " says Mohammed.

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