Tuesday, 31 August 2010
By Brooke Lewis and Vong Sokheng
The Phnom Penh Post
OM Roeun, who goes by the name Lucky, was born in a Thai refugee camp and moved to America when he was a year old.
Prior to being deported to Cambodia six years ago, his image of the Kingdom was based on a couple of photographs he had seen, as well as stories his parents and other members of the Cambodian-American community in northern Virginia had told him.
“I had never been to Cambodia,” he said yesterday. “I had seen a couple of pictures, and I could speak broken Khmer, but I couldn’t read or write the language.”
Lucky was 17 when he was convicted of malicious wounding and sentenced to five years in prison.
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Prior to being deported to Cambodia six years ago, his image of the Kingdom was based on a couple of photographs he had seen, as well as stories his parents and other members of the Cambodian-American community in northern Virginia had told him.
“I had never been to Cambodia,” he said yesterday. “I had seen a couple of pictures, and I could speak broken Khmer, but I couldn’t read or write the language.”
Lucky was 17 when he was convicted of malicious wounding and sentenced to five years in prison.
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