US rockers The Click Five to play Cambodia's Angkor Wat
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PHNOM PENH (AFP) — American rock band The Click Five plans to play a concert at
Cambodia's famed Angkor Wat temple next month as part of a campaign to fight
human trafficking, organiser MTV music channel said Monday.
The December 7 concert by the group, who are popular in Southeast Asia, is part
of a series of music shows in Cambodia organised by MTV and the US Agency for
International Development to raise awareness in young people about human
trafficking in the region.
"What we have is the chance to reach out and create a lot of interest about
human trafficking," Matt Love, spokesman for the MTV Europe Foundation, said of
the concert.
Cambodia has struggled to shed its reputation as soft on human trafficking, and
earlier this year suspended marriages between foreigners and Cambodians amid
concerns they were being used to traffic poor, uneducated women.
The US State Department refused a visa to Cambodia's police chief Hok Lundy in
2006 due to allegations he was involved in trafficking prostitutes.
The previous international recording artist to perform at Angkor Wat, built in
the 12th century and listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, was tenor Jose
Carreras who sang for a charity gala dinner there in 2002.
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