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 Re: حقّ لرودا أن تتربع فوق عرش المنبر (Re: Roada)
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In the dinning hall, the children sat at one end of the room because the adults complained that these children had no manners. They would stir the soup for meat and left nothing for the adults. A group of ten people sat around a table and on each table there was a bowl of soup and a bowl of stir fry. The soup consisted mostly of vegetables and water. There was no meat. The usual lunch or dinner consisted of two or three chickens--for 500 people. At the other corner of the room were the Chinese ' new-people'. They always sat and ate together.
In August 1976, the rainy season had started. Water covered most of the land. The grass was green; buds sprouted; water vegetation emerged from the fields. The rice patties were teeming with life--frogs and tadpoles, large fish and small ones, and herd of water buffaloes and children. The children were responsible for the care of the herd of water buffaloes and bulls. In a field away from the village, while my two buffaloes enjoyed the freshness of vegetation, I was chasing a frog. Onka did not want us to fish or catch frogs to supplement our diets, but I was hungry. The frog tried to escape and jumped into a newly dug hole. I did not take much notice of the hole then; I was too involved with my potential dinner. I jumped into it after the frog. I got it.
Getting out of the hole was not easy because the lip was over my head. The hole was rectangular in shape--it was about 2.5m X 2m. I was a little curious because I did not remember seeing it there the previous day.
In the dinning hall, two days later, I noticed that I had not seen some of the chinese new-people. I asked my mother where these people went, but she did not know. The next day, I went back to that hole in the hope that I would catch another frog, but the hole was filled. It was no longer a hole or grave but a mount. It smelled awful; 15 to 20 people rotted in that grave because they were Chinese.
In the next couple of months, many new people disappeared at nights. When nights fell, fear and terror reigned. Many questions haunted my mind. "What is death? What does it feel like? I am so young, I do not want to die. Why do people kill?" I did not understand the reasons for taking lives. I still do not understand. I was afraid of death. I still am. I daydreamed what it would be like to live with my two uncles in France or an uncle in the U.S., and what would it be like to go to school. Every night I dreamed that Onka killed me and my family, but I always barely escaped because I knew how to fly. The nightmares persist to this day.
Two of my mother's sisters were married in the middle of 1977. One aunt moved away to live with her husband in a nearby village. The other couple lived with my grandparents in another village. Onka did not like the new people because the new people were "corrupted by American imperialism and need to be cleansed." My grandparents' family and their in-laws were the only 'new people' left in their village. But this might change.
One day in August 1977, the news spread over the village that my grandparents' family and their in-laws would be killed that night. My mother's youngest sister wailed all afternoon saying good-bye to all the villagers. My grandmother bathed and dressed in her best dress ready to go. At dusk four men with ropes, guns, and bamboo sticks sat only ten yards from my grandparents' hut, and waited for night fall to take the two families away. The Khmer Rouge did not use guns and bullets to kill passive innocent people. They tied up their victims, sat them next to the grave, and hit them on the backs of their necks. Most of these victims did not die from the blow but from suffocation because they were buried alive.
At about 8 o'clock, one of the aunts finally became exhausted from her wailing. They sat in silence waiting like sheep await to be slaughtered. In the midst of a moonless night, one could see the glow of hand-rolled cigarette lights floating across the rice patties toward the group of men. A man came and talked to those men, my grandparents and family could not hear the conversation, but the result of the conversation was life-giving. Ten minutes later, the men walked away. The family was overjoyed. My other aunt who lived in her husband's village was not as lucky. She, her husband, and all of the new people in their village were buried alive in two graves.
December 1977, a Cambodian rebel group aided by the Vietnamese government invaded Cambodia. My village was only 15 miles from the Vietnamese border and was 7 miles away from the battle front. We could hear the sound of the battles. Sometimes we had to sleep in trenches because of the artillery bombardment. Vietnamese planes usually made bomb raids on the Khmer Rouge camps during the day. My sibblings and I tending to our buffaloes in the fields witnessed spectacular air shows. Every day for a month or two at 2 O'clock in the afternoon, four planes dove to bomb the Khmer Rouge camps and the anti-aircraft guns were fired at the planes.
One afternoon in late December 1977, the luscious open fields about half of a mile from a Khmer Rouge camp were filled with children and their water-buffaloes. Children gathered themselves under trees in a wooded area for protection from tropical heat and played games in small groups. The buffaloes walked lazily and enjoyed the luscious grass. My water buffaloes were on the far side of this open field and led other buffaloes away from the herd. My two brothers walked toward the buffaloes to stop them from straying. A few minutes later, I followed. We were about a quarter of a mile away from the wooded area in an wide open field. My brothers, about 50 meters in front of me, pointed toward the eastern sky. In the midst of the deep blue cloudless sky, four World War II T-28 planes were on a dive, not at the nearby camp but at me and my brothers in the open field. We were stunned and stood there motionlessly watching the dive. We were helpless; there was no cover. I think the pilots thought the black buffaloes were the khmer Rouge soldiers because the soldiers dress in black uniforms. While the planes were diving toward us, we heard and saw the explosions of the anti-aircraft shells in the air. At the bottom of the bomb dive, we could see the pilots in the planes and the writing on the bombs. We fell to the ground and placed our hands over our ears because of the loud noise of the plane engines and the explosion of the anti-aircraft shells. I was terrified. I thought that was it for me. I still can picture those bombs under those wings. But thank God, the anti-aircraft shells were fired so rapidly that the planes had to fly away.
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| حقّ لرودا أن تتربع فوق عرش المنبر | ودقاسم | 09-17-04, 11:54 PM |
| Re: حقّ لرودا أن تتربع فوق عرش المنبر | حمزاوي | 09-17-04, 11:58 PM |
| Re: حقّ لرودا أن تتربع فوق عرش المنبر | اساسي | 09-18-04, 00:24 AM |
| Re: حقّ لرودا أن تتربع فوق عرش المنبر | ودقاسم | 09-18-04, 03:10 AM |
| Re: حقّ لرودا أن تتربع فوق عرش المنبر | ودقاسم | 09-18-04, 02:20 AM |
 Re: حقّ لرودا أن تتربع فوق عرش المنبر | معتز تروتسكى | 09-18-04, 00:33 AM |
| Re: حقّ لرودا أن تتربع فوق عرش المنبر | ودقاسم | 09-18-04, 04:33 AM |
 Re: حقّ لرودا أن تتربع فوق عرش المنبر | معتز تروتسكى | 09-19-04, 04:17 AM |
| Re: حقّ لرودا أن تتربع فوق عرش المنبر | talha alsayed | 09-18-04, 01:28 AM |
| Re: حقّ لرودا أن تتربع فوق عرش المنبر | Habib_bldo | 09-18-04, 02:18 AM |
| Re: حقّ لرودا أن تتربع فوق عرش المنبر | محمد اشرف | 09-18-04, 02:40 AM |
| Re: حقّ لرودا أن تتربع فوق عرش المنبر | ودقاسم | 09-18-04, 09:55 PM |
| Re: حقّ لرودا أن تتربع فوق عرش المنبر | ba7ar | 09-18-04, 02:43 AM |
| Re: حقّ لرودا أن تتربع فوق عرش المنبر | فتحي البحيري | 09-18-04, 02:54 AM |
| Re: حقّ لرودا أن تتربع فوق عرش المنبر | Ahmed Alrayah | 09-18-04, 03:16 AM |
| Re: حقّ لرودا أن تتربع فوق عرش المنبر | murtada | 09-18-04, 04:32 AM |
| Re: حقّ لرودا أن تتربع فوق عرش المنبر | تاج السر حسن | 09-18-04, 04:42 AM |
| Re: حقّ لرودا أن تتربع فوق عرش المنبر | ودقاسم | 09-18-04, 10:32 PM |
| Re: حقّ لرودا أن تتربع فوق عرش المنبر | ودقاسم | 09-18-04, 10:28 PM |
| Re: حقّ لرودا أن تتربع فوق عرش المنبر | ودقاسم | 09-18-04, 10:27 PM |
| Re: حقّ لرودا أن تتربع فوق عرش المنبر | ودقاسم | 09-18-04, 10:00 PM |
| Re: حقّ لرودا أن تتربع فوق عرش المنبر | ودقاسم | 09-18-04, 09:59 PM |
| Re: حقّ لرودا أن تتربع فوق عرش المنبر | تولوس | 09-18-04, 03:00 PM |
| Re: حقّ لرودا أن تتربع فوق عرش المنبر | ودقاسم | 09-18-04, 10:36 PM |
| Re: حقّ لرودا أن تتربع فوق عرش المنبر | ودقاسم | 09-18-04, 09:51 PM |
| Re: حقّ لرودا أن تتربع فوق عرش المنبر | ودقاسم | 09-18-04, 04:47 AM |
| Re: حقّ لرودا أن تتربع فوق عرش المنبر | مريم بنت الحسين | 09-18-04, 05:16 AM |
| Re: حقّ لرودا أن تتربع فوق عرش المنبر | ودقاسم | 09-18-04, 10:38 PM |
| Re: حقّ لرودا أن تتربع فوق عرش المنبر | حمزاوي | 09-18-04, 05:25 AM |
| Re: حقّ لرودا أن تتربع فوق عرش المنبر | ودقاسم | 09-18-04, 10:47 PM |
| Re: حقّ لرودا أن تتربع فوق عرش المنبر | محمد الامين احمد | 09-18-04, 05:41 AM |
| Re: حقّ لرودا أن تتربع فوق عرش المنبر | ودقاسم | 09-18-04, 10:58 PM |
| Re: حقّ لرودا أن تتربع فوق عرش المنبر | Roada | 09-18-04, 06:01 AM |
| Re: حقّ لرودا أن تتربع فوق عرش المنبر | Roada | 09-18-04, 06:02 AM |
| Re: حقّ لرودا أن تتربع فوق عرش المنبر | Roada | 09-18-04, 06:03 AM |
| Re: حقّ لرودا أن تتربع فوق عرش المنبر | Roada | 09-18-04, 06:03 AM |
| Re: حقّ لرودا أن تتربع فوق عرش المنبر | Roada | 09-18-04, 06:04 AM |
| Re: حقّ لرودا أن تتربع فوق عرش المنبر | ودقاسم | 09-18-04, 11:01 PM |
| Re: حقّ لرودا أن تتربع فوق عرش المنبر | Hisham Amin | 09-18-04, 07:18 AM |
| Re: حقّ لرودا أن تتربع فوق عرش المنبر | ودقاسم | 09-18-04, 11:03 PM |
| Re: حقّ لرودا أن تتربع فوق عرش المنبر | Elnasri Amin | 09-18-04, 07:24 AM |
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| Re: حقّ لرودا أن تتربع فوق عرش المنبر | ودقاسم | 09-18-04, 11:08 PM |
| Re: حقّ لرودا أن تتربع فوق عرش المنبر | ودقاسم | 09-18-04, 11:06 PM |
| Re: حقّ لرودا أن تتربع فوق عرش المنبر | Raja | 09-18-04, 07:58 AM |
| Re: حقّ لرودا أن تتربع فوق عرش المنبر | برهان تاج الدين | 09-18-04, 09:49 AM |
| Re: حقّ لرودا أن تتربع فوق عرش المنبر | ودقاسم | 09-19-04, 06:09 AM |
| Re: حقّ لرودا أن تتربع فوق عرش المنبر | Bakry Eljack | 09-18-04, 09:55 AM |
| Re: حقّ لرودا أن تتربع فوق عرش المنبر | هاشم نوريت | 09-18-04, 11:11 AM |
| Re: حقّ لرودا أن تتربع فوق عرش المنبر | ودقاسم | 09-19-04, 04:48 AM |
| Re: حقّ لرودا أن تتربع فوق عرش المنبر | Raja | 09-19-04, 06:25 AM |
 Re: حقّ لرودا أن تتربع فوق عرش المنبر | Anwar Ahmed | 09-18-04, 11:15 AM |
| Re: حقّ لرودا أن تتربع فوق عرش المنبر | Deng | 09-18-04, 01:25 PM |
| Re: حقّ لرودا أن تتربع فوق عرش المنبر | ودقاسم | 09-19-04, 11:31 AM |
 Re: حقّ لرودا أن تتربع فوق عرش المنبر | Yasir Elsharif | 09-18-04, 01:58 PM |
| Re: حقّ لرودا أن تتربع فوق عرش المنبر | هاشم نوريت | 09-18-04, 07:43 PM |
| Re: حقّ لرودا أن تتربع فوق عرش المنبر | هاشم نوريت | 09-18-04, 07:47 PM |
| Re: حقّ لرودا أن تتربع فوق عرش المنبر | شمهروش | 09-19-04, 06:21 AM |
| Re: حقّ لرودا أن تتربع فوق عرش المنبر | أحمد أمين | 09-19-04, 06:22 AM |
| Re: حقّ لرودا أن تتربع فوق عرش المنبر | ودقاسم | 09-21-04, 09:55 PM |
| Re: حقّ لرودا أن تتربع فوق عرش المنبر | ودقاسم | 09-20-04, 01:41 AM |
| Re: حقّ لرودا أن تتربع فوق عرش المنبر | talha alsayed | 09-19-04, 06:38 AM |
| Re: حقّ لرودا أن تتربع فوق عرش المنبر | شمهروش | 09-19-04, 06:47 AM |
| Re: حقّ لرودا أن تتربع فوق عرش المنبر | محمد الامين احمد | 09-19-04, 06:46 AM |
| Re: حقّ لرودا أن تتربع فوق عرش المنبر | talha alsayed | 09-19-04, 06:49 AM |
| Re: حقّ لرودا أن تتربع فوق عرش المنبر | شمهروش | 09-19-04, 07:01 AM |
| Re: حقّ لرودا أن تتربع فوق عرش المنبر | talha alsayed | 09-19-04, 07:05 AM |
| Re: حقّ لرودا أن تتربع فوق عرش المنبر | شمهروش | 09-19-04, 07:17 AM |
| Re: حقّ لرودا أن تتربع فوق عرش المنبر | talha alsayed | 09-19-04, 07:24 AM |
| Re: حقّ لرودا أن تتربع فوق عرش المنبر | hanouf56 | 09-19-04, 12:32 PM |
| Re: حقّ لرودا أن تتربع فوق عرش المنبر | Raja | 09-19-04, 12:42 PM |
| Re: حقّ لرودا أن تتربع فوق عرش المنبر | hanouf56 | 09-21-04, 12:25 PM |
| Re: حقّ لرودا أن تتربع فوق عرش المنبر | singawi | 09-19-04, 08:26 PM |
| Re: حقّ لرودا أن تتربع فوق عرش المنبر | Habib_bldo | 09-20-04, 00:16 AM |
| Re: حقّ لرودا أن تتربع فوق عرش المنبر | kamalabas | 09-21-04, 02:06 PM |
| Re: حقّ لرودا أن تتربع فوق عرش المنبر | Ahmed Alrayah | 09-21-04, 04:22 PM |
| Re: حقّ لرودا أن تتربع فوق عرش المنبر | تاج السر حسن | 09-22-04, 03:40 AM |
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