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Article: YUN:CAMBODIA STILL FEELING EFFECTS OF WAR AND GENOCIDE.(Commentary/Editorial)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
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- May 16, 2005
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Byline: Samean Yun, Rocky Mountain News
Recently, as part of my fellowship at the Rocky Mountain News, I accompanied a reporter while she was doing a feature story on a paintball game.
While taking part in the game, I encountered excited people who wanted to shoot as many people as they could. I too was very excited, but I was also afraid that I would be shot. In the middle of the battlefield, I saw one guy kneeling down near a tree and thought he was a member of my team. But I was confused. He shot me three times in my bottom. It was very painful.
What surprised me most was seeing people in Colorado wearing soliders' camouflage uniforms to ...