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Show 6 LAKESIDE Saturday. April 27, 1996 Immigrant family build new One day a friend was working near the village, Chuon said. He overheard them talking about 14 villagers the soldiers planned to execute. He told me my name was on Cambodians have met 1( share of challenges ei Stai J Su aa Cc Gi an sn en Al 1 an G fo ril ar al n P rt tl o n ti The Associated Press I BLEY - The N the list. Chuon decided it was time to escape. He had heard that the United Nations was building camps on the temperature was below freezing. A late spring storm had buried his lawn beneath 4 inches of wet, heavy snow. The flowers wouldnt survive. Thai border and decided to go probably there. Intense fighting broke out between the communists and the Khmer Rouge. Chuon saw the fighting as an opportunity to run. He gathered his wife and three children and fled. We knew if we stayed we would die, Chuon said. We knew if we went we might die. We decided to go. My son was only 8 months old. We carried him the whole way. It was the rainy season. There was on the standing water waist-dee- p roads. There were snakes and bugs. We took nothing with us, only a small amount of food. We walked for three days and two nights. We took turns sleeping so that someone could keep watch. The soldiers were always near. We couldnt let the baby cry for fear they would hear him and capture But Bunarith Chuon wasnt complaining. Worse things have happened. As a refugee, Chuon has seen lifes challenges in the best and worst of times. Chuon, a native of Cambodia, left his homeland in 1979 - fleeing a war between the Soviet-backe- d and the Chinese-backe- d Khmer Rouge. Hundreds of thousands have died in Southeast Asia in the half century since World War II - victims of a seemingly endless fight over land and ideologcommunists y- In 1978, Chouns village was overrun by communist soldiers. They turned the village into a prison and the villagers into slaves. Chuon and other villagers were forced to work and live in the forest outside of the village. Their homes and possessions were confiscated by the army. Chuon remained enslaved until us. Edang Camp, a life in U.N.-bui- lt camp crowded with over 30,000 Laotian, Cambodian and Vietnamese refu- gees. While there, he started an infor- mal school for refugee children, writing a textbook himself to teach them to read and write. U.N. officials recognized his efforts and put him to work establishing schools to teach refugee children in three different camps. His work with the United Nations led to him being sponsored to come to the United States as a refugee in 1981. Life in America gave Choun a new set of challenges. He had to learn a new language, adjust to a new culture and get used to a new climate. Those challenges are typical of most refugees, according to Tuyet N.B. Seethaler, director of the Program for New Americans, a Utah State University Extension program. 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