Just read this, and you'll understand what I mean when I say that we are risking our families moving and living in a foreign land...
Six masked gunmen had stormed into the Siem Reap International School at around 9 am and taken a teacher and 29 young pupils hostage, many of them children of expatriate hotel workers.
Hostage-taking, normally for money, is not uncommon in the war-scarred southeast Asian nation, which is still awash with weapons after decades of civil war, including the Khmer Rouge genocide of the 1970s.
More than 1 million tourists went to Cambodia last year, most of them visiting the famed 800-year-old Angkor Wat temple complex on the outskirts of Siem Reap.
It could happen here...
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