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Article: Nightmare of the Killing Fields still haunts Cambodians in U.S.
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- The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA)
- Article date:
- December 16, 2004
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Byline: Adam Fifield
PHILADELPHIA _ Some call it "Pol Pot sickness." Symptoms include hearing voices, disassociative episodes, depression, nightmares, dizziness, panic attacks, chronic headaches, hallucinations, sleeplessness and flashbacks.
Although Cambodia's barbaric Khmer Rouge leader is dead, the horrors of Pol Pot's 1970s regime, which wiped out nearly a quarter of the population, continue to plague the survivors. Many of them now live in Philadelphia, which has the fourth-largest settlement of these refugees in the country.
The effects of that bloody era have deepened the normal troubles immigrants experience in assimilating. For many, ...