Sorry for the bad cut and paste.
The last time she saw him he was standing on the tarmac at Phnom Penh airport, waving as the ageing Air Cambodia plane carrying her, her daughter, two nephews and three suitcases to safety shuddered into the sky, avoiding by some miracle the constant barrage of Khmer Rouge shells.
In truth, she saw him once more, seven days later, on April 17 1975. But she was in France, and he was on the television. He was hurrying into the compound of the French embassy in Phnom Penh with the prime minister and other high-ranking officials from the former republic, clutching a suitcase she had left him stuffed with nearly $300,000 of her mother's cash.
He is safe, she thought. But he was not. Four days later two French gendarmes dragged Ung Boun Hor, the former speaker of the Cambodian national assembly, to the compound gates and delivered him, with six other alleged "traitors", to a platoon of waiting Khmer Rouge soldiers.
One eyewitness said he was so scared of what awaited him his legs were "quite literally shaking". After that, no one saw Ung Boun Hor again.
Sitting now in her cramped one-room flat in the Paris suburb of Nogent, Billon Ung Boun Hor, 66, relates the horrifying events of those few days three decades ago - portrayed in Roland Joffe's 1984 movie The Killing Fields - calmly enough. But the years have done nothing to temper her bitterness.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/france/story/0,,1695990,00.html
You'd think she'd have settled elsewhere than France after a betrayal like that.. Luxembourg, Switzerland are francophone too.
Cambodia, the domino theory exemplified and accelerated by the Democrat Party's own betrayal of allies.