What I Saw During Revolution In Laos 1975

At that time, I only had a feeling that my village was empty. There were not many people in my village. While walking along the road, I did not see many people on the road as before, not much noise, not much voice and felt quiet.

There are some houses closed the door and windows. There were only houses and things left around. There were no body living inside. Houses were quiet and not lively and empty.

Some of buildings or houses were very nice and beautiful but they were broke down or collapsed because of soldiers’ anger, especially the building or houses where the old soldiers living before. I just had a look at it and I did not understand why.

I sometime heard people asking each other about their neighbors where they were, when they moved out for instance. And I saw some houses closed one by one.

Sometimes I saw a lot of soldiers in green uniform walking past my house in a long line. Most of them covered their head with a lot of leaves. There were also guns, bullets, bombs hanging around their body. Sometime the soldiers looked for a place in the village and practicing how to fight. They marched and shout loudly.

I also saw my parents prepared things. They packed some clothes, food, and value things like money, gold, silvers for instance. In addition, my father dig a security hole to hide ourselves in the gardens behind our house.

Some night I heard the sound of bomb or explosion or the sound of gun loudly not far from my house. It seemed that two sides of soldiers found and fight each other and sometimes in the morning, I would see soldiers carrying a corpse or a dead person past my house.

The corpse would be covered by white or yellow clothes. Sometimes I also saw the relative crying and following the group of soldiers. My heart beat as if a clock whenever I saw it. Yes, of course, even though, I did not understand the situation, what happened but I could feel about lost and suffer.