Genocide of Chams, Vietnamese and Khmer in Cambodia (PDF, new window)
In this world, I am no longer a person. I have no freedom, no thoughts, no origins, no heritage, no rights; I no longer have a body. I have only a duty: to dissolve into the organization.
If they asked you something and you said anything wrong, or if you protested, you disappeared forever.
Image. Photo of child soldiers recruited by the Khmer Rouge. Credit: Alan C.
Image. Photograph taken at the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum on the site of the former prison near Phnom Penh. On display are photos of the victims taken at the time they were jailed. Credit: Christian Haugen.
Image. Photograph of a victim executed at Tuol Sleng prison. She was arrested when her husband, a high-ranking officer in the Cambodian army, was caught in the Khmer Rouge “purges.” Credit: Alan C.
Image. Map depicting the expansion of the Kingdom of Cambodia at different times. Credit: CIA, Wikimedia Commons.
Image. Photograph of the bloodied wall of a pagoda in Ba Chúc, South Vietnam, where 3157 Vietnamese civilians were murdered by Democratic Kampuchean troops on April 18, 1978. Only two people survived the attack, which led to the invasion of Cambodia by the Vietnamese military. Credit: T. D. Nguyen. Wikimedia Commons.