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buying slaves in the past |
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As we went on Chinyang told me that in his youth they still were buying slaves occasionally. Once people of Chongwe offered Wakching a slave from Phom, "Do you want to take him or not?" they asked. "Where's he from?" "He is a Phom". "Well if he is a Phom we will take him". Between the two villages the Wakching people received him and immediately cut off his head. It was a captured boy whose parents had been killed during a raid. The Oukheang people took the head and paid twenty layas, a pig and a lump of salt. |
