Opinion - ‘I dream he is looking for his phone’: Cambodian mother recalls how Thai shell killed her 13-year-old son

Leng Kimleang, whose 13-year-old son was killed by Thai artillery on Dec 10, at her home in Banteay Meanchey province’s Kouk Prech village. - Photo: DC-Cam

PHNOM PENH: Leng Kimleang, a 45-year-old mother, has described how her youngest son Khum Khim, 13, was killed by a Thai artillery round during the December fighting.

She recalled that when fighting broke out near her home — in Kouk Prech village of Sophy commune, in Banteay Meanchey’s O’Chrov district — on Dec 8, she wanted to flee.