-Chapter Three-Safe Haven
Ravuth shielded his eyes against the bright beam shining in his face. The man wielding the torch spoke, but Ravuth couldn’t understand him. The man lowered the torch and Ravuth could make out a large silhouetted figure as two soldiers rushed over and shone their torches at him.
A soldier spoke to Ravuth in Khmer, “Who are you and where did you come from?”
Ravuth replied with a quake in his voice, “My name is Ravuth. I am looking for my family and I came from the jungle.”
The man in the background spoke to the soldiers, who ordered Ravuth to go with them. Terrified, he did as instructed and they went into a well-lit tent where a soldier told Ravuth to sit.
He could now see the man who was a large, rotund foreigner with a grey beard. He wore a black smock with
