Cambodia
Through Harold’s Lens:
Mom buried me alive!
“In 1976 I was 5”, Savon said.
“Daddy dead”
“Brother dead”
“Mommy horrified”
“Me terrified”.
Khmer Rouge
Killing fields
3,000,000 slaughtered!
Protection from murder.
4:30am.
Home
Small village
Open field.
Dark deep hole.
Dirt hole
Five feet deep
Three feet square.
Roof
Thatched bamboo
Grass cover
Heavy.
My dark hole
Every morning.
Mom left me
Alone
In a hole
12 hours
Pure fright
Pure terror.
Mom in rice field
Picking.
Not fresh green stems
Not prime first cut.
One kernel
One kernel
One kernel.
One white kernel
One white kernel in the dirt.
Rats snapping
Cobras slithering
Mom’s tiny toes
Under water.
One meal that day
One meal day after day
After day
After day.
Mom buried me alive!
Khmer Rouge
Killing fields
3,000,000 slaughtered!
