The honest man
The Honest Man’s Last Tears Written by: KOEMLY In the year 1975, when the war had barely ended in Cambodia, the land of small village lay broken and tired. Bomb craters scarred the countryside, and the rice fields that once fed villages now grew wild with weeds. Houses stood half-burned, schools collapsed, and the laughter of children had turned into the heavy silence of survival. In a small, faraway village, where the dust never settled and hunger was a daily guest, lived a man named Lee and his daughter, Lita. His wife had died during childbirth years ago, leaving Lee to raise the baby alone through the screams of war and the ruins of peace. He never remarried. All his love, all his remaining hope, was poured into the small girl with bright eyes and a weak body. But life had not been kind to them. Lita grew up sickly, her stomach twisted in ways no local medicine could heal. The village healer shook his head sadly. "She needs real doctors," he said, "machines, medicine...