Sunday, December 12, 2004

Long-Lost Khmer Rouge Guerrillas Hit 21st Century

Twenty-five years later, the group emerged from the forest in clothes made of bark and leaves, unaware that the war was over, the Vietnamese had gone and Pol Pot was dead.

This is amazing. 25 years running and hiding. A tribe with births and deaths. There must be a wealth of information for social research. I wonder how different their lives are now. They live in one of the poorest countries in the world. Will daily survival be all that much different? When they make this story into a book I just might pick it up.

From the article: "We ate bird meat but kept the seeds from the bird's crop to plant." What does the mean?

3 comments:

Craig R. Harmon said...

"We ate bird meat but kept the seeds from the bird's crop to plant." What does the mean?This is just a guess but I imagine it refers to seeds swallowed by birds and then left, undigested, in their droppings.

Craig R. Harmon said...

Or, actually, since it is in the context of eating birds, perhaps the crop is a part of a bird's digestive system. Now that I think of it, this is the more likely.

Unknown said...

I think you might be close to the right answer. The whole thing is strange.