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Meetings with Khmer-Australians with Khmer Post
Sydney, 5-12 Oct. 2012
LIVE radio interview on SWR FM 99.9 with Meach Sovannara of Khmer Post (Sydney, 5 Oct. 2012), re-broadcast that afternoon via Khmer Post in Cambodia.
West of Sydney, 5 Oct. 2012
About to start the walk from Darling Harbor to the Opera House: Theary with Really and Sophon, Chhayri and Kanika Marm, Phourin, Korath, Khmer Post Meach Sovannara (Sydney, 5 Oct. 2012)
On George St. on way to the Opera House (Sydney, 5 Oct. 2012)
Khmer Post Meach Sovannara, Korath, Phourin, Kanika, Sophon, Really, Theary (Opera House, Sydney, 5 Oct. 2012)
Meeting at Rossmoor Pagoda, one of 4 in the Sydney area (6 Oct. 2012)
Speaking before 100 community leaders at BBQ dinner hosted by Mr. Chan Hour for Khmer Post Meach Sovannara and CIVICUS Cambodia Theary Seng (Sydney, 6 Oct. 2012)
BBQ meeting for 100 community leaders in the Sydney area at Mr. Chan Huor's home, here with Mr. and Mrs. Seng and Ron Seang, and Mr. Nop Sophea, whose great uncle a famous film star was sadistically killed buried to the neck and raked to death (Sydney, 6 Oct. 2012)
With an old friend of the mid-1990s when we used to lead demonstrations every other day, to factories, for democracy, alongside then-Khmer Nation Party (now Sam Rainsy Party) leader Sam Rainsy -- Khema Vann Sok!
Relaxing at Circular Quay this gorgeous spring-like Sunday morning, waiting for the 11:15 ferry to meet Dr. Mark and Sue Strom at Balmoral Beach across the Opera House harbor (7 Oct. 2012)
Lunch with Dr. Mark and Sue Strom at Balmoral Beach (a ferry ride across from Sydney's Opera House), 7 Oct. 2012
With Sue and Mark Strom at Balmoral Beach (Sydney, 7 Oct. 2012)
Ferry ride back from Balmoral Beach to Circular Quay next to Opera House to make the reception dinner with Sam Rainsy, Kem Sokha, etc. a 60-min-train ride west of Sydney, in the Cabramatta neighborhood (7 Oct. 2012)
Over 500 Khmer-Australians attended the fundraising dinner (Sydney, 7 Oct. 2012)
Opposition leader Sam Rainsy (Sydney, 7 Oct. 2012)
Mr. Phourin and Mr. Chhayri Marm, organizers of the 500+ meeting of the Khmer-Australian community in Sydney for Cambodian leaders from opposition politics (Sam Rainsy, Kem Sokha, Saumura Tioulong), media (Khmer Post Meach Sovannara) and civil society represented by Theary Seng
Theary Seng speaking on the social conditions of Cambodia (Sydney, 7 Oct. 2012)
Mr. Seng Seang, an active community leader (Sydney, 7 Oct. 2012)
With Madam Kanika Marm and Madam Ron Seang at reception dinner for opposition leaders Sam Rainsy and Kem Sokha, as well as civil society Khmer Post and CIVICUS Cambodia (Sydney, 7 Oct. 2012)
With dynamic Khmer women leaders of the Sydney area -- Ms. Narong Kay, Madam Ron Seang and Madam Kanika Marm (Sydney, 7 Oct. 2012)
With the dynamic Narong Kay, vice-president of Sam Rainsy Party (Sydney branch), 7 Oct. 2012
Buntha, Pisei, Kanika, Theary, Seth of SWR FM 99.9 community radio (Sydney, 7 Oct. 2012)
Sophon, Phourin, Meach Sovannara (Khmer Post), Theary Seng, Kanika Marm, Korath, Chhayri Marm, among other Khmer-Australian community leaders (west of Sydney, 7 Oct. 2012)
More photos from the Public Meeting of Khmer Community in Sydney for Cambodian leaders -- opposition Sam Rainsy, Kem Sokha, Saumura Tioulong, and civil society Khmer Post Meach Sovannara and CIVICUS Cambodia Theary Seng
Friends at ABC News Australia - Eric Campbell and Marianne Leitch (Sydney, 8 Oct. 2012). After a train ride to meet with The Charitable Foundation's Steve Killelea and Peder Pedersen near St. Leonard's station (Sydney, 8 Oct. 2012)
ABC News Australia (Khmer Service)
LIVE radio interview with Madam Seda from studio in Melbourne
on "Language in Crisis"
Q&A with listeners from within Cambodia
(Sydney, 9 Oct. 2012, 4:30-5 p.m.)
Dinner with the Sams and the Sems (Fairfield, a suburb west of Sydney, 9 Oct. 2012)
Lunch at Fairfield Club with Mr. Khut Khun (with a visit by his manager daughter Dany), Sydney, 10 Oct. 2012
Lunch meeting hosted by the Sokheng Chhay and the Cheav Families (Sydney, 11 Oct. 2012)
Lunch meeting hosted by The Chhays and The Cheavs (Sydney, 11 Oct. 2012)
With the Chhays and the Cheavs (Sydney, 11 Oct. 2012)
Madam Bunthoeun Chhay, holding the only photo of her father whom she witnessed murdered before her teenage eyes on 9 Oct. 1978 in Prey Veng; a few days later her uncle was also killed before her eyes (Sydney 11 Oct. 2012)
Meeting with the Artist himself, Prime Minister Hun Sen's worst nightmare, the censored Sacrava (aka Mr. UNG Bun Heang) of Sacravatoons (Sydney, 11 Oct. 2012)
With the adorable Kanitha Marm in her backyard (Syndey, 11 Oct. 2012)
Dinner hosted by Chhayri and Kanika Marm (Sydney, 11 Oct. 2012)
Soriya KEO, now a mother of 3 young women, about my age, who lost LITERALLY ALL family members--mother, father, don't know if she has other sibling, guardians--the last place she remembers is Pailin where somehow from there she found hersel f as an orphan thrown into a truck with other orphans taken into Khao-I-Dang... She believes it was ICRC which cared for her and 300 other orphans. Initially she was given choice to live in France, but declined as she wanted to join other orphaned friends who had already left for the US, finally after waiting anxiously, she relented to accepting the next invite to live in Australia.
Another BBQ dinner hosted by Mr. San Sok Hean where I was asked to speak on the reasons why I withdrew from the Khmer Rouge Tribunal and denounced it as "political farce" (Sydney, 12 Oct. 2012)
My lovely, hospitable, generous hosts -- lauk Seng Seang and nekbong Ron (who was adopted by KR military commander Son Sen and lived with his wife while Son Sen was often in Svay Rieng on the battle fields, 1971-1979) in front of their spacious Greenville home, a suburb west of Sydney (Australia, 12 Oct. 2012)
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