If you can identify this monument, you can tell where I am from right away.
My first trip back to my homeland April 28 - May 19, 2000

I was born and raised in Khum Tuk Vil, Srok Saang, Kandal Province
in a typical poor Cambodian family. However, the determination of a loving father did give my siblings a brandnew light. Follow the link to my testimony below to read a little more on my background.
Parents:
  • Father: a graphic artist with strong will and moral attitude, and a caring love of God for his family. He was starved to death by the Khmer Rouge in October 1977. He collapsed and died while crawling out of his shelter to get his ration. He was burried in a thin wood-box behind Wat Prek Kroch. Picture (big-file: 976K) - Tomb flooded - 8-2000..and..Picture(big file) - Tomb - August 2000
  • Mother: a home maker, deceased when I was 3 years old.

    Brothers and sisters, from the oldest to the youngest:
  • Sister ( C.C.K ): finished her college degree, and then enrolled in the school of nursing. Matched and married; never finished her nursing degree. Her husband, a high school teacher, was starved to death in early 1977, in Dam Ban IV, Battambang. My sister has been widow, since, with 6 grown-up kids in France (Noisy Le Grand). Some of her kids work for Peugeot, a French car manufacture. Her son, Vinsak ( Alexandre ), is now working for a French National TV studio.
  • Brother ( L.T.K ): Professor of Mathematics at Sorya Variman II college, Siem reap, Angkor. Killed by the Khmer Rouge somewhere at around Wat champus Ka-ek in late 1976. Survived by his wife MuyNy Khuy and two kids, who are now running a fine dining restaurant in Toulouse, France.
  • Brother ( Charles K ): was in Paris on a scholarship to his Medical internship 5 years before the country went communist. He was lucky and smart enough to remain in France during the Khmer Rouge era. Now medical doctor practicing in Paris. Married to a daughter of a general.... The couple has one son and one daughter: Sorya Patrice et Sylvie. Brother's trip to Singapore, Thailand, and Cambodia in August 2000
  • Sister ( Kouren K ): Secondary school teacher, married to a government official in 1968. Suffered beyond description in the Khmer Rouge regime. Now widow with one son and one daughter. Currently, she is living in Maryland, USA, running her own dry-cleaning stores. Her husband, Kuch Chiev, former Director of Admin. Services, Ministry of Interior, was killed by the Khmer Rouge somewhere in Dam Ban III after he made a narrow escape from a group of gun toting communist soldiers who went to get him at the middle of the night in Dam Ban IV -- Battambang in early 1977.
  • Me ( Hongly G. Khuy ): graduated with Bacc.II from Lycee Sysowatt in 1970 in Mathematics. Went on to Faculte Des Sciences Commerciales till the Khmer Rouge took over in 1975. Taught part-time Mathematics & English at "Lycee Voltaire - Private High School" while in the University.
    I have countless and endless stories to tell about life in the communist regime: starting from sleeping in the mud, no food for weeks, storing foods (?) in pockets, fooling the communists, riding bicycle without air tubes and tires, to living and walking among the dead (corpses). I guess I can say that I have seen life from all angles. Now married to my lovely wife with two small kids. My job with the University of Hawaii involves Electrical Engineering and Computer system management. My youth / background / & my Spiritual side? : My belief/faith is something else that you might want to check out./ My testimony
    .................My trip back to my homeland April 28 - May 19, 2000
    If you talk to me and try to convince me to become a communist as one lady did when I first came to Hawaii, you probably talk to the wrong guy. And....and you should think harder about your motivation and the reality out there. Remember this....and mark my words! Communist ideals soothe your ears well; but you will not enjoy living through the regime that you are trying to help establish -- unless you can be one of the leaders on the top of it. Want clarification? Yes?, contact me.

  • youngest sister ( T.K.S ): survived the communist regime, married to a Mariott's baker. The couple has two boys: Paul and Borey. They are all in Honolulu, Hawaii.

    • My trip back to my homeland April 28 - May 19, 2000
    Photo Archive / My other trips back to my homeland (every Christmas time after 2000 / A mission )


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