Walking through the dark, humid jungle, the Ham and Keo families silently worried. Escaping Pol Pot’s wrath on Cambodia was their only goal. Violent memories of bombs being dropped on neighboring villages and experiences in the concentration camps shook their minds. Crunch. Dasie, who was only four, stepped on a twig. Grunting as she walked, a sharp pain in her gut stabbed at her. Thirty-five years later, she would learn that it was a piece of shrapnel from a bomb that detonated near her home.
Davy, my grandmother, carefully weaved her way through the muggy tangle of animal and plant life. Just ahead of her, her husband and small son slowly walked. Puth Keo held Seiha’s hand.
“Pa, I’m tired,” he said.
Puth hushed his son by scooping him into his strong arms. “We must be very quiet, …show more content…
After the Cambodian-Vietnamese war, he took control of Cambodia under a totalitarian dictatorship. An estimated two million people died during the Khmer Rouge. Pol Pot’s goal was to wipe out the educated, wealthy classes in Cambodia because they did not agree with his views.
For the Keo and Ham families’ escape, they spent years devising a plan. During their time in the camps and hiding in the jungle, the children had turned into adolescents, babies made their way into the world, and family members passed. Traveling through the jungles during the night and sleeping in trees during the day, the families had to scavenge for food and ran on little sleep. They were malnourished, sleep deprived, terrified, and hopeful.
In the year 1980, they found a Khmer refugee camp on the Thailand-Cambodia border. Finally, they slept in some comfort, gained a bit of weight, and felt safe. There, Davy discovered that she was with child. After having her first child was stillborn from malnutrition and her second son born in concentration camps, her only hope was to be in America by the time her third child came into the
Davy, my grandmother, carefully weaved her way through the muggy tangle of animal and plant life. Just ahead of her, her husband and small son slowly walked. Puth Keo held Seiha’s hand.
“Pa, I’m tired,” he said.
Puth hushed his son by scooping him into his strong arms. “We must be very quiet, …show more content…
After the Cambodian-Vietnamese war, he took control of Cambodia under a totalitarian dictatorship. An estimated two million people died during the Khmer Rouge. Pol Pot’s goal was to wipe out the educated, wealthy classes in Cambodia because they did not agree with his views.
For the Keo and Ham families’ escape, they spent years devising a plan. During their time in the camps and hiding in the jungle, the children had turned into adolescents, babies made their way into the world, and family members passed. Traveling through the jungles during the night and sleeping in trees during the day, the families had to scavenge for food and ran on little sleep. They were malnourished, sleep deprived, terrified, and hopeful.
In the year 1980, they found a Khmer refugee camp on the Thailand-Cambodia border. Finally, they slept in some comfort, gained a bit of weight, and felt safe. There, Davy discovered that she was with child. After having her first child was stillborn from malnutrition and her second son born in concentration camps, her only hope was to be in America by the time her third child came into the