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Bo Uce still vividly remembers his experiences as a child soldier under the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia — the freezing nights, the constant hunger, the violence. He doesn’t talk much about his past. But his daughter, Victoria Uce, wants to know how her dad’s childhood during the Cambodian Genocide affected him and influenced how he raised her.
The Khmer community in Long Beach is a constant for Victoria Uce, defining and surrounding her throughout her life. Her temple, the Khemara Buddhikaram Buddhist Temple, has become an important sanctuary for Victoria Uce’s family and their Khmer community.What Victoria Uce is talking about is the killing of Cambodian citizens and other ethnic minorities under the Khmer Rouge regime from 1975 to 1979.
What Victoria Uce doesn’t understand is how she and her sister were raised with so much warmth and love, even though her parents experienced harsh and traumatic childhoods. While in the brigade, her father often suffered from starvation.Long Beach is home to one of the largest Cambodian communities outside of southeast Asia. Cambodian migrants first came to the city in the 1950s and 60s through study abroad programs. Between 1975 and 1994, more than 150,000 Cambodians migrated to the U.S.
Though she can’t comprehend the magnitude of her parents’ trauma, Victoria Uce wants to understand how they survived. She hopes by doing that, she can start to understand her own behaviors.
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