Inheriting: Victoria & the Cambodian Genocide
Imperfect Paradise
LAist Studios
4.5 • 535 Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
In honor of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, we bring you an episode from Inheriting Season One. Inheriting is a show about Asian American and Pacific Islander families, which explores how one event in history can ripple through generations.
Growing up in Long Beach, California, Victoria Uce was surrounded by a loving and supportive family, while her dad, Bo, lost his parents at a young age in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge. Victoria only ever knew the basics of this story. Mainly, that her dad was forced to join the country’s mobile youth brigade and take part in the state-sponsored violence that tore Cambodia apart. In this episode, Victoria talks to her father about how he turned away from a life of violence to live a life of compassion and gave her the kind of safety in childhood that he never had.
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| 0:34.8 | a show about the gap between the dream |
| 0:36.6 | and reality. |
| 0:37.9 | I'm Antonia Sadejillo. |
| 0:41.4 | May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, |
| 0:45.1 | and so we wanted to bring you a series of encore episodes from our sister podcast |
| 0:48.9 | that we produced in collaboration with NPR Inheriting. |
| 0:52.6 | The podcast first premiered last year. For the next few weeks, |
| 0:56.8 | you'll hear conversations between family members and the AAPI community about how the past is personal, |
| 1:03.0 | how a single event can ripple through generations of one family. Our first episode features |
| 1:09.1 | Victoria and Bo Ooch of Long Beach. |
| 1:11.8 | Victoria's always wanted to know about her father's experience as a child soldier under |
| 1:16.5 | the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. They talked about it for the first time on inheriting. |
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