B.C. aid worker left for dead after Cambodia attack

Hun Sen regime is about violence and crimes. Especially, the local authority that people trusted the most are among criminals. Those authorities are the slave of the crimes and the riches. This kind of crime was usually associated with the local police officer and the drug addicts.

A B.C. man is fighting for his life in Cambodia after a violent mugging.

Darcy Wintonyk

Humanitarian worker Jiri Zivney was beaten, robbed and left for death January 9 in Phnom Penh outside a bank machine.

"As he was riding away on his motorbike, they clubbed him in the head and he crashed his bike," family friend Monty Aldoff tells CTV News.

The 46-year-old was transferred by ambulance to a hospital in the capital city, where he is listed in critical condition. Doctors are working to stabilize him so he can be brought back to Canada for treatment.

According to the International Humanitarian Hope Society, the Kamloops resident was in the country delivering medical supplies to orphans on behalf of their agency.

Zivney was on his 24th day of a humanitarian trip to China, Vietnam, Thailand and Burma. Most of the other team members returned to Canada after the Bangkok airport shutdown in November, but Zivney and another team member wanted to carry on by land.

A trust fund has been set up in Zivney's name at Valley First in Kamloops, B.C., Account # 610071571 (transit # 27310-809).