The boy was forced to walk naked in the colony, say the police. He is even seen with his hands and legs tied as he is thrashed. He is trying weakly to cover himself with his discarded clothes. One of the men filmed the attack and shared the video, in which the boy is heard crying out in pain as he is tortured with a beer bottle. The police say they were drunk when they tortured the boy on Monday, accusing him of theft. 'When I came to know of the video, I tried to kill myself,' the boy told NDTV today.įour men have been arrested but the main attacker is missing. The businesses now employ more than 20 Khmer men, many of whom also relocated to Phnom Penh in search of acceptance. A trained hair stylist, he opened Space Hair in 2013 and expanded it into a bar later that year. The mobile phone video surfaced on Thursday, three days after the assault, and has been circulated on social media. Like many gay men growing up in rural areas, he knew he had to relocate to the big city to find other gay men and start living openly, as himself.