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Monday, May 26, 2008

Socheata Poeuv tells family's journey out of Cambodian killing fields in PBS documentary 'New Year Baby'

Posted on 6:28 AM by svdfbd
By CHRIS VOGNAR / The Dallas Morning News cvognar@dallasnews.com Longtime Carrollton resident Socheata Poeuv (pictured) was born 28 years ago in a refugee camp on Cambodian New Year, a day that is supposed to bring luck. As it turned out, her entire immediate family was blessed with fortune. They survived. Now she has told her story in the documentary New Year Baby, airing Tuesday on KERA (
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