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 Re: حقّ لرودا أن تتربع فوق عرش المنبر (Re: Roada)
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The next morning was an incredibly beautiful morning. We were alive. The morning sun was brilliant; the birds were singing; we were still breathing. How can I explain how I felt. Life! Life is so beautiful.
As my two brothers and I surveyed the ground, we noticed there were covered graves everywhere. Some were old; the covered ground sank a bit. Some were new; the ground heaved up and blood oozed out due to the intense heat of the tropical sun. And to our dismay, some graves were not covered.
We lived in the prison camp for five months. During those five months, we witnessed and experienced inhumane events. A few hundred prisoners came and never left. A few tried to escape but were gunned down and left to rot in an open field. Even in the midst of these trials, we still hoped; hoped for supernatural events to take place. The supernatural events did happen but they took place in natural ways.
One early evening in late June 1978, a monsoon rain just passed by and left a tremendous amount of water in the fields. A group of prison guards walked lazily toward our building.
"Mardi. Sina. Lundi. Come with me," our guard called. "We're going to the next village to find stranded buffaloes," he continued. My two brothers and I knew that was not true because when we counted them two hours earlier; for all 112 of them were accounted for. My mother knew what was going on; she tried to put my sister Theary and youngest brother Dar to sleep. A guard unchained Sina, Lundi and myself and walked us away from the camp.
The clear quiet night was incredibly beautiful; the heavens declared the glory of God. Against the pitch dark canvas of infinite space, thousands of stars radiated their diamond quality. The waning moon reflected its golden rays off the water-covered fields. The scene was one of peace, tranquility, and contentment.
In the midst of the splendor, I forgot about my situation until Sina whispered to me, "did you see, there were a lot of guards with ropes, guns and shovels outside the prison compound?"
"No," I answered. He looked at me and his face was saddened. I understood his thought. Tears rolled down our eyes but we did not cry. Thoughts raced through my mind. Anguish heavied my soul but I was relieved that at least three of us would survive this insane act of genocide by Onka.
We stayed at a nearby village for the night. There we told Lundi what was happening back at the prison. We tried to comfort him. In our silence, we prayed that Theary and Dar did not wake up while they took our mother away. We felt (feel) guilty that our mother died and we lived. But it was her wish that she should die so that we might live.
The next morning, we hurried back to the camp with the hope to see at least Theary and Dar. The prison was unusually empty. With relief, we sighted my sister and brother. They were crying while they were searching hopelessly for their mother. Sina and I picked them up and told them that everything would be alright. A prisoner told me that they had been crying on-and-off since the middle of the night because they could not find their mother when they awoke. That same morning, a guard told us to go back to our village.
In January 1979, Vietnamese overthrew the Khmer Rouge regime and established a puppet government. Seizing this opportunity, my mother's mother took her family and us (her grandchildren) to escape into Thailand. While waiting for sponsorship, we lived in refugee camps in Thailand for one and one half year.
December 23, 1980, my family arrived in Michigan under the sponsorship of Millbrook Christian Reformed Church. The Church has provided an incredible amount of support to my family. With the Church's and family's support and direction, my three brothers, sister and I have thrived in this great country. We have been active and involved in our church, community, and school activities. Lundi and Theary, who did not know a word of English upon their arrival to this country, became top place winners in the National Spelling Bees for the city of Grand Rapids, and were mentioned in the United States Congress. Lundi also graduated from his junior high school as a valedictorian. Theary was her high school's class Saluatorian, while Sina, Dar and I placed in the top ten percent of our classes.
Sina is finishing up with his electrical engineering program at Grand Valley University in Michigan. Lundi, while waiting to enter a medical school next fall, will graduate from the University of California at Irvine as a Biological Sciences major. Theary is in her third year in the International Relations program at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. Upon graduation, she plans to go on to law school. Dar is in his first year at University of California at Irvine enrolling in the pre-med program. I am attending Northeastern University in Boston, MA in an MBA-Coop program. I have been given the honor of working for the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) as a bank examiner for my co-op work period.
My work experience with the OCC has been a beneficial, functional, and practical experience. The people with whom I have worked are professional, capable, supportive, and amiable. I have enjoyed my OCC experience immensely. I desire to work for the OCC upon my graduation from Northeastern University. My most influential rationale to work for the OCC is to gain work experience and knowledge about the American banking system, so that someday in the near-future, professional American-Cambodians like myself can go back to Cambodia to assist in rebuilding Cambodia.
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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 |
 Re: حقّ لرودا أن تتربع فوق عرش المنبر | ahmed haneen | 09-18-04, 11:13 AM |
| 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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