KOMPONG TRACH, Cambodia (Reuters) -- A poor farming couple in southern Cambodia is seeking help for their four albino boys, including sunglasses to shield their sensitive eyes from the sun.
The couple, residents of a remote village in Kampot province, 75 miles south of Phnom Penh, said they had no idea why four of their six children were albino."This is our destiny that the Lord Buddha gave us, we can't oppose it," the boys' father, Uch Chouen, 36, said. "We've had six sons after 16 years of marriage, but four of them look like Americans."
The boys, aged from 1 to 16, were perfectly healthy but they could not tolerate bright sunshine.
"We need to buy sunglasses for them, but we don't have the money. Why weren't they born rich?" he asked.
The boys' mother, Houn Oung, said her sons had stirred a lot of interest in the community, and some people thought they must be Americans, reincarnated in Cambodia.
The four albino boys were more naughty than the two normal ones, she said.
The boys -- Mouek, 16, Moeun, 8, Mean, 6, and 1-year-old Mach -- shelter in the shade during the heat of the day.
"I live a hard life. I'm very hot while others are normal," Mouek told Reuters. "I'm really very shy, and sometimes I completely hate my body because I am not the same as other people, but that's the life I have to face."