Yoeun Sam En, based on an interview in Dublin, 26 May 2008
I am 43 years old and I am a father, a husband and a rice farmer. I come from Kratie, which is located in the northeast of Cambodia.
I have four children: Three daughters, En Vet (18 years old), En Ya (14 years old), En Yan (13 years old) and one son, En Sok (16 years old). I have been married to my wife, Morn Von, for 18 years.
Decades after the cluster bombs were dropped during the Vietnam War, I was happily supporting my children and living in peace with my family when this cluster munition accident occurred and changed my life completely on 12 April 2004.
As I farmed, I often came across cluster bomb remnants, and removed them so no harm could come to my children as they played in the fields. On that dark day in 2004, I was trying to remove a cluster bomblet from the area when a major explosion occurred. I had wanted to add the fourth bomblet to a hole where three other bomblets where already hidden.