December 12, 2010
By Eliana Gramer and Larissa Peifer
Twin Cities Daily Planet
Two Cambodian immigrants living in the Twin Cities told their stories in interviews with the Daily Planet after seeing the documentary Enemies of the People about the Cambodian genocide from 1975-79.
Peou "Beaw" Pin-Mene, 34, came to Minnesota at the age of six. She and her family survived the Cambodian genocide and after several stays at Thai refugee camps were able to immigrate to the United States.
Where do you and your family come from?
My family is originally from the Kompong Cham Province, and through my late father's work, they relocated multiple times, to different parts of Cambodia.
My mom seldom speaks of my late father's work, perhaps it's too painful for her and I tried to press her for more details and now I've learned to just respect her decision. All that I've been told is that he worked for the government and at the onset of the "Killing Fields," he was told that he needed to take his troops to meet and guard the King of Cambodia. This was April 18, 1975. He was never seen again.
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