‘Like becoming a refugee again’: They paid for their crimes. The US deported them anyway
Hundreds of Cambodians who fled genocide and civil war are being sent back to a country they barely know
The yellowed eyes of Phal Pen stared, unseeing, as he laid on his hospital bed, waiting for another scan at the Khmer-Russian Friendship hospital in Phnom Penh.
Since doctors diagnosed him at the end of 2022 with bile-duct cancer, Pen has been struck low by a constant pain in his abdomen. He could barely eat, let alone move.