Sophal leng stagg biography of william

Post a Comment. It is for this reason that she relates the details of her experiences during the four years that she and her family lived under under the oppression imposed by this brutal regime. Today, Sophal and her husband, Bill Stagg, run the Southeast Asian Childrens Mercy Fund, a not-for-profit corporation dedicated to raising awareness of the genocide as well as collecting much needed funds for children in Cambodia.

Sophal Leng Stagg was nine years old when she and her family were forced to leave their home in Phnom Penh in April , joining the millions of Cambodians who were Missing: william.

As Sophal says, "I am determined to tell our story. I believe our story must be told by all survivors, again and again, to prevent a repeat of the inhumanities that existed during Cambodia's darkest years. Haing S. Ngor, has been almost totally ignored outside of southeast Asia. If, however, we have learned nothing in the continuing struggle of man's inhumanity towards others, we can confidently state that such lessons in history will be repeated as long as they are overlooked by the world community.

The continuing reliance upon witnesses to such events serves as a constant reminder of the need to bring them to our attention Lest we forget!

Sophal Leng was nine years old when she and her family were forced to leave their home in Phenom Penh in April of , joining the multitude of Cambodians who were dragged .

The enormity and brutality of the Cambodian holocaust staggers the imagination; its horrors cry out for explanation. It reminds us to what depths humanity is capable of sinking and pushes each of us to examine our own conscience and our relationship with our fellow human beings. I cannot completely explain my reasons for the need to write about these experiences except as a testimony to those whose lives were lost and can no longer speak for themselves.

On the night of April 16, we were awakened by the terrible sounds of bombs and guns, close at hand. The explosions were so near that our house shook with each burst.