(cont'd from yesterday's post)
About two million is the number of Cambodian people murdered by their own government during the "killing fields" period between 1975 and 1979. That's 20-25% of the total population, but the suffering went even further than the appalling number of deaths..
A boy of five or six lived through it and tells his memories as an adult in the video below. He lost his whole family:
A woman soldier in the Khmer Rouge army now grieves her own participation in the brutal war of the government against the people here.
(cont'd tomorrow)
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