A Change of Guard

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Saturday 2 May 2015

Family torn apart by Cambodian genocide reunited after nearly four decades

Alex Nicholson

May 01, 2015: The tearful moment two sisters were reunited after a brutal war in Cambodia separated them for 40 years has been filmed in front of a live audience. Watch the video here.

Two sisters who became separated during the Khmer Rouge reign of terror in Cambodia four decades ago wept as they were reunited on television.
Siv Hong and her younger sister Siv Bo were reunited on popular Cambodian reality television show It's Not a Dream last week.
The show, on air since 2010, is centred on helping survivors of the Cambodian genocide reconnect with family members they thought they would never see again.
While bonded by blood, the sisters' journeys could hardly be more different.
Hong was forced to move north from capital Phnom Penh, with her father and Bo, while her mother and four other siblings were moved to another part of Cambodia after Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge took power in 1975.
With her father murdered by a soldier, and her mother missing, Hong thought she and Bo were the only members of the family not to starve to death.
Siv Hong. (Supplied)
Siv Hong. (Supplied)
After the Khmer Rouge lost power in 1979, the pair were separated, with Bo staying in rural Cambodia, where she is a rice farmer.
After years in a refugee camp, Hong left Cambodia in 1984 to live in Texas, where she now runs a donut shop.
Hong contacted It's Not a Dream researchers in 2013 in the hope of finding her younger sister, but until the moment the siblings were reunited on stage, had no idea they had been successful.
It had been so long since they had seen each other that Bo had forgotten what her older sister looked like.
"I've been waiting for you, sister," Bo says, tears streaming.
"I'm so happy, nothing can compare to this," Hong says.
Siv Bo. (Supplied)
Siv Bo. (Supplied)
It turned out something else could compare to it.
Their mother, long believed dead, had been tracked down too.
"I was so worried thinking about you," their mother said.
"I lost hope."
Bo says with her surviving family reunited, she now feels complete.
"I don't want to be separated again," Bo says.
"We want to be together like a family."


1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I stopped watching Khmer Live TV, because the streaming of the new player is not fluid. I mostly watch this program and country side music - for worldly entertainment.

Gog