While the United States, the Communists of North Vietnam fought in the
1960s and 70s, the neighboring country of Cambodia was attacked within
by dictator Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge. The Khmer Rouge imprisoned,
enslaved and murdered the educated and intellectual members of the
population who are in the harrowing "killing fields"-rice fields, where
the harvest yielded nothing but millions of skulls. Young Sichan Siv-a
target since he was a university graduate, was told by his mother
captive to run and "never give up hope! And put to work in a slave
labor camp, Siv knew it was only a matter of time before he moved to
death would be working or be killed. With a daring escape from a
logging truck and a desperate run for freedom through the jungle,
including falling into a dreaded pungi pit, Siv finally came to a
colorfully dressed farmer who said: "Welcome to Thailand . He spent
months gaining teaching English in a refugee camp in Thailand, while it
was his strength, eventually Siv entry into the United States. On his
arrival in the U.S., Siv kept striving. He grew up in a U.S. ambassador
at the United Nations, Siv returned with great anxiety to the killing
fields of Cambodia in 1992 as a senior representative of the U.S.
government. It was an emotionally overwhelming visit.
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