Phnom Penh, Cambodia – Each morning, Chab Vanna started his day with the radio. Each night, he’d end it the same way. For the past 15 years, radio served as Vanna’s primary source of news – the rare ...
In 1975, Loung Ung was just 5 years old, living with her family in the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh where her dad worked in the government. That year the communist Khmer Rouge regime came to power.
Chanrith and Chanbo Oum fled Cambodia in 1981, in the aftermath of the genocide brought by Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge. When they arrived in Colorado, they immediately knew they needed to build a ...
He was seen as a chief architect of the regime's brutal collectivist policies that led to the deaths of some 1.7 million people. He was found... Nuon Chea, who served as Pol Pot's chief lieutenant ...