article_snippet.sent: (CNN)On the stage of a TV studio in Phnom Penh, Cambodian-American Ly Sivhong is telling an engrossed audience a tragic, but familiar, story.
article_snippet.sent: Ly, then 13, was separated from Cambodian-American Ly Sivhong mother and two of Cambodian-American Ly Sivhong sisters who, along with virtually the entire population of Phnom Penh -- about two million people -- were sent on a forced march into the countryside to work.
article_snippet.sent: Cambodian-American Ly Sivhong remained in the capital with Cambodian-American Ly Sivhong father and four other siblings, three of whom would succumb to starvation and disease in the following years, before Cambodian-American Ly Sivhong father was shot to death before Cambodian-American Ly Sivhong eyes in 1979.
article_snippet.sent: Cambodian-American Ly Sivhong killing prompted Cambodian-American Ly Sivhong to leave His killing sole remaining family member, youngest sister Bo, in the care of a local couple.
article_snippet.sent: Cambodian-American Ly Sivhong embraces Cambodian-American Ly Sivhong sister and both women sob.
article_snippet.sent: I missed you so much,Cambodian-American Ly Sivhong says.
article_snippet.sent: I've always searched for Cambodian-American Ly Sivhong," Bo tells " Bo.
article_snippet.sent: Yes," Cambodian-American Ly Sivhong says.
article_snippet.sent: "I thought you died,Cambodian-American Ly Sivhong Cambodian-American Ly Sivhong says.