{"id":582,"date":"2020-12-07T07:03:15","date_gmt":"2020-12-07T12:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heartsoffreedom.org\/?p=582"},"modified":"2024-07-06T15:44:20","modified_gmt":"2024-07-06T19:44:20","slug":"dourn-sam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heartsoffreedom.org\/fr\/dourn-sam\/","title":{"rendered":"HOF006: Dourn Sam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Douen Sam est n\u00e9 \u00e0 Battambang, au Cambodge. Douen \u00e9tait l'enfant d'une famille militaire. La famille a cach\u00e9 cette information aux Khmers rouges car elle craignait pour sa vie. Pr\u00e9occup\u00e9 par la perspective de faire face \u00e0 un r\u00e9gime communiste, lui et un autre villageois se sont \u00e9chapp\u00e9s vers la fronti\u00e8re tha\u00eflandaise. Au cours de leur exode, lui et son compagnon ont t\u00e9moign\u00e9 les horreurs caus\u00e9es par les mines antipersonnel, la cause fr\u00e9quente de la mort des Cambodgiens qui les accompagnaient.<\/p>\n<p>Les autorit\u00e9s tha\u00eflandaises l'ont soup\u00e7onn\u00e9 d'\u00eatre un tra\u00eetre une fois arriv\u00e9 en Tha\u00eflande. Ils l'ont d\u00e9tenu en tant que prisonnier de guerre. Il \u00e9tait accus\u00e9 de sympathiser avec les Khmers rouges. Il a \u00e9t\u00e9 tortur\u00e9 et battu pr\u00e8s de la mort. Il a finalement \u00e9t\u00e9 envoy\u00e9 dans un h\u00f4pital local o\u00f9 il a rencontr\u00e9 des membres de la Croix-Rouge am\u00e9ricaine, qui ont r\u00e9ussi \u00e0 n\u00e9gocier sa remise en libert\u00e9<\/p>\n<p>En 1978, il a demand\u00e9 le statut de r\u00e9fugi\u00e9 aupr\u00e8s d'agents de l'immigration canadienne. Trois mois plus tard, il s'est retrouv\u00e9 dans un avion \u00e0 destination d'Ottawa. Il garde de bons souvenirs de ses relations avec les amis qu\u2019il s\u2019est fait lors de ses premi\u00e8res ann\u00e9es au Canada. Depuis, il est mari\u00e9 et p\u00e8re de deux enfants.<\/p>\n<div class=\"videowrapper\"><iframe class=\"video\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TIryj8fQe48\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" frameborder=\"0\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\"><\/span><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\"><\/span><\/iframe><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Douen Sam was born in 1953 in Battambang, Cambodia. &nbsp;Douen was the child of a family with a military history. The family hid this information from the Khmer Rouge, as they feared for their lives. Concerned about the prospect of dealing with a Communist regime, he and a fellow villager escaped to the Thai border. [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":989,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9,36],"tags":[150,76],"class_list":["post-582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cambodian","category-interviews","tag-cambodian","tag-ottawa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/heartsoffreedom.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/heartsoffreedom.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/heartsoffreedom.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heartsoffreedom.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heartsoffreedom.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=582"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/heartsoffreedom.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69981,"href":"https:\/\/heartsoffreedom.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582\/revisions\/69981"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heartsoffreedom.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/heartsoffreedom.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heartsoffreedom.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heartsoffreedom.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}