A Change of Guard

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Monday 23 April 2012

[Long Beach's] Killing Fields' legacy

Sath Om, top left, Arun Va, top right, Roth Prum, bottom left, and Sam Keo. (Jeff Gritchen / Press-Telegram) 

By Greg Mellen, 
Press-Telegram Staff Writer 
Posted: 04/21/2012 

LONG BEACH - The pain stitches across the face of 91-year-old Sath Um as she recalls the horrors she witnessed and her brushes with death.
Roth Prum fingers the leaves of a small plant she holds as she talks about how "I became the cow" when relating her work pulling a plow through rice fields.
Arun Va says his memory is burned with the faces of five women he watched have their throats slit and bodies weighed down with rocks and sunk near the Tonle Sap lake.
"That one thing is in my eye all the time," Va says.
For years, Sam Keo was wracked by survivor guilt and shame for not sharing food with a sibling who died from starvation.
"I would wake up every night sweating," Keo says.Read the rest of the article at Press-Telegram.

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