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THE BATTALION
MONDAY, MARCH 24, 1980
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KHAO I DANG, Thailand —
Khau Bun Siv considers himself
lucky to be alive and luckier still to
have escaped Cambodia with seven
members of his family, including two
tiny grandchildren.
He did it twice.
Khau, 57, was the import director
at the Pepsi-Cola bottling plant in
Cambodia before the Khmer Rouge
forces took power in 1975 and in
stituted a reign of spartan living that
left an estimated 1 million people
dead.
“When the Vietnamese invaded
Cambodia (in January, 1979) there
was suddenly nothing at all to eat, ”
Khau said. “We set out on foot for
our old home in Battambang in mid-
February and arrived in the city in
mid-April.”
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But things in Battambang, once
the center of Cambodia’s rice trade,
were not much better. The ration
established by the Vietnamese was
only 200 grams of Soviet-supplied
corn per person every 15 days.
“Many, many people were dying
of starvation, ” Khau said. “I decided
to get my family out.”
Khau’s hands trembled as he told
the story, and the lines of worry
deepened in his face. Once a fairly
wealthy businessman, he was not
ashamed of his torn clothes. He is
proud of his ordeal because he man
aged the impossible in war-ravaged
Cambodia — he kept his family
together.
For days, the family cut its way
through the jungle forests, skirting
both Vietnamese and Khmer Rouge
patrols.
“We were lucky because we had a
guide, my son-in-law’s nephew,”
Khau said. “He really knew the jung
le and the border region, but when
he got us to the frontier he turned
back — he didn’t want to leave his
old mother alone in Battambang.
The Khau family reached Thailand
last May 18 and the first thing Khau
did was write to his three brothers
already living in San Jose, Calif.,
and New York City.
“I told them we were alive, and 1
gave them as much news as I could of
their own children and friends,
Khau said. “They promised to help
us come to America.
Before the red tape of immigration
procedure had even begun, disaster
struck.
"On June 9, the Thai authorities
came to our camp at Nong Chan and
loaded us all into buses. We thought
we were going to a processing cen
ter,” Khau said.
Instead they were driven, along
with 42,000 other Cambodian re
fugees, to the remote northeastern
border and forced to scramble down
a mountainside back into Cambodia
near the ancient temples of Preah
Vihar.
“In the first few days many people
died by stepping on mines,” said
Khau, who lost one son, a daughter-
in-law and two grandchildren to dis
ease, hunger and execution during
the Khmer Rouge reign. “Then
there were days of hunger, and then
the Vietnamese found us. ”
For several months the family
wandered across Siem Reap pro
vince, site of the magnificent tem
ples of Angkor Wat, trading pieces of
their clothing with villagers for food.
“We decided to make another
try,” said Khau’s son-in-law. Sun
Sampheat, 39. "The Vietnamese
were in full control, and we didn’t
want to live under those people.”
More weeks in the jungle, picking
their way around mines and artillery
fire of Vietnamese troops battling
Khmer Rouge guerrillas, brought
the Khau family "hungry but
together” back into Thailand on Dec.
12.
"Now we want nothing but to go to
America,” Khau said.
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Russians may
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SAN FRANCISCO — Mary
Green would like to sock it to the
Russians in Afghanistan.
The trim, energetic woman went
to Afghanistan on her honeymoon
four years ago. She returned with a
bundle of intricately knit, colorful,
kneelength Afghan socks that not
only paid for the trip, but launched
her on a lucrative import business
and made her lifelong friends in the
Soviet-occupied country.
Now she’s waiting anxiously to see
if a promised shipment of about
22,000 pairs of the high quality socks
will find its way out of Afghanistan
and into the hands of her sales staff of
colorful, turbanned Sikhs from
Afghanistan now living in the United
States.
“Theoretically, I’ll get my socks.
It’s an interesting country to deal
with.
“I really love the people there,”
she said. “And they love Americans.
When they found out I was an Amer
ican they’d do anything for me.”
Her “hobby” of importing items to
pay for her travels has mushroomed
into a six-figure business. In addition
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