Thach Ros Click here to watch News 10 Now video segment
3/19/2007
By: Bill Carey
Syracuse News 10 Now (NY, USA)
They come to a new land, expecting a new life. But they may not realize that as they raise their families as Americans, they run the risk they may end up feeling like foreigners in their own homes, as a tug of war ensues over values and behavior.
Which brings us here to Gere Avenue. Where a son, raised in the United States, would clash with a father clinging to old homeland traditions. It was a clash that would have deadly results.
Police received the call Saturday. Shots had rung out. A man was spotted reloading a rifle. He was later identified as Thach Ros, 62, who had come to the U.S. more than 25 years ago.
“He call me and he tell me what he do. And, I not believe,” said Rev. Oan Yos.
What Ros had done was to shoot and kill his son, Phinn, 34, who went by the name of Peter. It was the deadly climax to a long feud that centered on one of those old traditions.
“He want his son to get married with his niece in Cambodia. But, he not tell his son. He tell his son to go visit. And, when arrive over there, he wanted to arrange to marry his son to his niece and his son say, no, not to a relative. Because his son is Americanized, you know,” Yos said.
Phinn had married another woman. Thach's wife had sided with her son. She tried to defend Phinn on Saturday. That's when her husband shot her. She escaped and was rushed to a hospital.
The pastor and police eventually talked Thach into releasing three others in the home. His two surviving children and Phinn's 20-year old wife.
In the long hours on the phone, Thach had told a story of desperation. Of a family who failed to appreciate the new life he had provided them.
“Leave everything. Come here. Good life. You supposed to listen to me, you know. He take care of the family good. And the family, have to respect him. Have to appreciate him. Broke his heart, you know,” said Yos.
The desperation was too deep to allow for a peaceful surrender.
The last victim of the eruption of violence, found dead in the house, was Thach Ros himself.
Which brings us here to Gere Avenue. Where a son, raised in the United States, would clash with a father clinging to old homeland traditions. It was a clash that would have deadly results.
Police received the call Saturday. Shots had rung out. A man was spotted reloading a rifle. He was later identified as Thach Ros, 62, who had come to the U.S. more than 25 years ago.
--------Ros' pastor was shopping when his cell phone rang.
A clash of cultures
A 29 hour long standoff on Syracuse's west side ended Sunday night with a father and son dead, and a mother fighting for her life in a hospital. It was all called a domestic dispute. But it was a dispute that found its roots in a land thousands of miles away.
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“He call me and he tell me what he do. And, I not believe,” said Rev. Oan Yos.
What Ros had done was to shoot and kill his son, Phinn, 34, who went by the name of Peter. It was the deadly climax to a long feud that centered on one of those old traditions.
“He want his son to get married with his niece in Cambodia. But, he not tell his son. He tell his son to go visit. And, when arrive over there, he wanted to arrange to marry his son to his niece and his son say, no, not to a relative. Because his son is Americanized, you know,” Yos said.
Phinn had married another woman. Thach's wife had sided with her son. She tried to defend Phinn on Saturday. That's when her husband shot her. She escaped and was rushed to a hospital.
The pastor and police eventually talked Thach into releasing three others in the home. His two surviving children and Phinn's 20-year old wife.
In the long hours on the phone, Thach had told a story of desperation. Of a family who failed to appreciate the new life he had provided them.
“Leave everything. Come here. Good life. You supposed to listen to me, you know. He take care of the family good. And the family, have to respect him. Have to appreciate him. Broke his heart, you know,” said Yos.
The desperation was too deep to allow for a peaceful surrender.
The last victim of the eruption of violence, found dead in the house, was Thach Ros himself.
13 comments:
What a horrible dictator father! Living in the US and being a pastor he should have compassion for his son.
A big lost
A Cambodian in Phnom Penh
What is a pastor learn from Bible or Jesue Christ...the doctrine might from day to day encourage him to be greedy, anger and delusive....it is intense that this thought increasingly motivat him to enforce his son.
Christian Bible should teach people to be greedy with heaven and god...but have never looked at the reality of life...this message should be delivered to Rev. Oan Yos too.
Change your mind to practice your former tradition and religion, Buddhism, which is very popular in America nowadays...don't be a brainwasher messenger of Americanized Alliance Churman man!
Ros Thach isn't the pastor. Read the story again.
20 year old wife? 62 year man old pastor?
what do you call that?
500 rielcan you read?
The guy was not a pastor and the 20years old is the wife of his dead son.
9:50pm I call that 1 you stupid brain go to learn to rad english again with a Kwack!
FUCK All of you. You Goddam asshole. All you had to say was that
I mis-read the article....
Someone was talking to me while I was reading the article... so oops on my part.
And 9:50pm You can't even spelled the word read. You are a dumb ass idiot. I was trying to point out that a lot of old old Cambodian men have gone back to Cambodia and marry young wife.
So fuck all of you. Rot in hell you piece of shit. you are the blind idiot. And you are as cheap as a $5 pussy. So kiss my ass and go fuck yourself.
GO FOR YOUR OWN MOTHER 500 SHIT.
YOU STUPID IDIOT, DO NOT BALK LIKE BLIND DOG, YOU EARASE BRAIN.
PLEASE READ THE ARTICLE AGAIN. WHO IS THE PASTOR? MY UNDERSTANDING THAT THACH ROS IS A MEMEBER OF A CHURCH NOT THE PASTOR.
IN CAMBODIA THROUGHOUT THE LOCAL NEWS FLASHES ALMOST DAILY, HUSBANDS KILL WIVES AND VIS VERSA. CHILDREN KILL PARENTS AND VIS VERSA. OTHERS ARE BEING KILLED FOR OTHER REASONS.
IN USA, MURDERS/ HOMOCIDES/SUICIDES ARE IN THE NEWS EVERY DAY. EACH PERSON DOESN'T HAVE IMMMUNE BUT USE COMMON SENSE TO GUIDE HIS/HER ONE LIFE TO LIVE.
12:23am must be stupid. because he/she can't even spell ERASE or Bark. And what does "go for your own mother" mean?
Maybe you should go back to english school. Your Teacher in Cambodia didn't teach you how to spell. You don't think I don't know where you are? I have the capabilties to trace all internet acces via the IP from the blog.
So be carefull what you post, what you say. YOU are not incognito. The Internet is more powerful and then you think.
But just like your English it only shows that your grammer is not on grade level.
But I guess this is too much english for you. Maybe I'll type in French next time.
And lastly, I apologize to the other readers for my profanity, not intended for you. Like I said. Oops! on my part for reading the article incorrectly. I was trying to say that too many horny old men are taking advantage of young desperate cambodian girls. Cambodian needs to change and give them better hope in life. Marriage to escape poverty should not be the only solution.
if you really love them let them go, if they are yours they will return to you.
bloody selfish, low self esteem father.
What a m*ther f*cking father!!!! If the crazed father wanted his own niece in Cambodia to get marry so much, why don't he go f*cked her himself. The son had a reason. He was ALREADYYYYYYYY MARRIED, you m*ther f*cking crazy father!!!! Let that mather f*cking old man burn in hell for all eternity.
um for your info. the son did marry the niece of his father then had it dissolved and then he married someone else. news doesn't tell everything!!
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