Members of the Twin Cities Cambodian community are mourning the loss of a long time advocate. 44-year old Darina Siv was executive director of the United Cambodian Association of Minnesota. She died of cancer on Friday. Siv immigrated to St. Paul in 1982 after escaping Cambodia's Khmer Rouge,In the late 1970's, Siv escaped the Khmer Rouge and fled to a Thai refugee camp. She met her husband in the camp and they moved to St. Paul in 1982. Siv wrote about her life under the Cambodian regime in" Never Come Back: A Cambodian Woman's Journey." Jane Kretzmann of the Bush Foundation, directed the state's Refugee Program in the late seventies and eighties when survivors of the Kmer Rouge were relocating to Minnesota.