
07/28/2025
👧🏻 “Where is my mother? Where have all my siblings gone?”
Her voice was barely louder than a whisper. Her dress was torn. Dust clung to her cheeks, streaked by silent tears.
She stood alone at the edge of Trapeang Bat Thkav camp, surrounded by strangers, yet utterly alone.
She didn’t know why the sky had exploded.
She didn’t know what a cluster bomb was.
All she knew was the sound — a terrible sound — and the screams that followed.
Then the running. The fire. The silence.
Tens of thousands fled their homes in terror after Thai forces dropped weapons meant for war zones — not villages.
Fathers carried children with burnt feet.
Mothers searched for babies ripped from their arms in the chaos.
And children, like her, wandered the dirt paths asking questions no child should ever have to ask.
Not again.
Not here.
Not to us.
Cambodians have tasted this kind of horror before. We grew up with stories of it, promised our children they never would.
But now? History is knocking on our door once more.
And one little girl is still waiting…
For her mother.
For her siblings.
For someone to tell her that she’s safe now.
🙏 Stand with Cambodia. Stand with the truth.
Because no child should ever have to ask that question again.