"I
don't remember much of what had happen but here are bits
and pieces. (1976) I remember my father coming home one
even and telling us that we needed to leave our home and
flee toward Thailand. Then I had four brother, a baby
brother, and two eldest sisters. We packed up as quickly
as we could and headed toward Thai border. After running
with my father for hours we heard gun fire, it was the
khmer rouge. They were shooting as us and the other families
that was fleeing. We all panic and I my mom grab me and
the baby and started running. After a while we had lost
my father, brothers and sisters. I remembered being really
scared. I was probably 6 yrs old. Suddenly my mom was
shaking my baby brother and she put him down on the grass
and went to hide in the bushes because there was still
gun fire. What I didn't know was my little brother was
shot in the head when we were running. I don't remember
how long we were hiding but we walked for a very long
time."
Mao
Hiet
Part
of The Cambodian Genocide
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