Journalist in Southeast Asia, sharing things I notice
Dec 10, 2018 • 23 tweets • 8 min read
A Cambodian story:
This is Saing Soenthrith. He was born in Phnom Penh in 1964. There aren't any photos of him as a child, because when he was a schoolboy the Khmer Rouge seized the city and sent its entire population to the countryside to do slave labor under brutal conditions.
Rith was so young that his most vivid memory of that day is his devastation at having to abandon his new white puppy, Barang.
He was separated from his parents and siblings. All were put to work in collective units. All but him were killed.
