Ppl didn't like the governments investigation into why it happened, so NGOs are setting up their own as you can read here.
A PPP photographer took some photos of the stampede here.

Yesterday a expat Christian lady told me that her househelper , who is also a Christian, had been approached by other non Christians in the days that followed the bridge disaster. Apparently on the Khmer radio they said no Christians were killed on the bridge that night (I'm not sure if thats true but thats what some are saying). I heard on other blogs and facebook of Christians almost going on the bridge but didn't end going, and a few stories of people who were on the island at the time but took the other bridge back across. These NZ Christians also have some stories like that, have a read here.

Yesterday in the PPP they said the outcome of the investigation was that it wasn't any one persons fault but a joint thing. Today there is an article about how they may move some of the more critical patients to hospitals overseas, as well as this one about a hotline for people to talk about it.

From the Phnom Penh Post:
Government authorities have announced the conclusion of their investigation into the causes of last week’s lethal stampede on Diamond Island, saying no officials will be held to account for an incident that was described as a “joint mistake”.

One my my language helpers from a few years ago just visited me with her soon-to-be husband to give me their wedding invitation. It was funny to think back when I first met her how hard it was to communicate. She is working in Phnom Penh and her fiance (is that how you spell it?) lives and works in a province about half a days drive from Phnom Penh. I asked them where they will live after they get married and it turns out they will both keep living in their respective places. He has an agreement with a missionary to keep working at the church, and she has a job in the city. So they will spend the first bit of their married life living in different towns! They actually wanted to wait longer to get married, so they could live together straight away, but their families disagreed. I've heard of this sort of thing with other couples, but I still find it strange.


She told me a friend from her home town hasn't been seen since that night on the bridge. Her family checked in all the hospitals and searched through the dead but they haven't found her.

From the PP Post.
And KI media has heaps of stuff, like this one about a family who got off the bridge.

I can't find a connection fast enough to watch all the clips of the birdge stuff, i'll post this one here and maybe one day come back and watch it

Weird day today. A student was meant to preach today, but Soeun did instead so he could address the stampede. I think he talked about it as a warning , that we need to repent, and afterwards 5 people did say they wanted to become Christians. Hearing stories of people who were stuck on the bridge is so horrific, I think Soeun used this as a simile for hell.

The person we know who was on the bridge came to church with us, so did the friend who has been looking after them. They usually don't but today was different. They shared their story with others.

Then the 4 of us went to a shopping mall and had pizza and took funny photos in a photo booth.

Click here to read in full

The short, narrow suspension bridge that links Phnom Penh with Diamond Island has not re-opened, but it hardly matters. Few are likely to walk on it again.

The Khmers of Cambodia are Buddhists, but they hold strongly to ancient animist beliefs. The bridge is a bad place now. The spirits of those killed - the 347 who died when a crowd celebrating the water festival stampeded here on Monday night - will keep people away.

Sopheap Meng has come back one last time to farewell his brother. They were together when the panic hit.

Others blogs on the bridge thing

Here is pictures of this weeks front pages, again, i think in Aust some of these pictures would come with warnings, but i dont think they do that here.

And a more recent bit from the same blog about bananas and rumours.

Cambodia is familiar with ghosts

 I've already put heaps on my main blog about the stampede, but there is still more stuff i want to record, so i thought i'd so it here instead. These photos are of the last week.

online expat discussion that began while it was all still happening, so they didn't really know what was going on

And here is a thing about ghosts.

Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Cambodia is familiar with ghosts

Analysis: By 10 p.m. the night of the stampede, there were too many people. Far too many people.

November 23, 2010

By Terry McCoy

Special to GlobalPost

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Cambodia is a country of ghosts and superstition. Don’t go out at night, they say in the countryside — ghosts. Always live with other people, others say — ghosts. Did you hear the crying last night in the quiet? Ghosts.

Click to read in full on the KI Media blog