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Article: Memoirs of a survivor. (survivor of the 1975 Khmer Rouge massacres in Cambodia wants questions answered)(Column)
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- The Progressive
- Article date:
- September 1, 1997
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I was twelve years old when the Khmer Rouge seized power in Cambodia in 1975. I managed to survive. Others in my family were not so lucky.
I saw the Khmer Rouge shoot my mother dead. They decapitated my uncle and his entire family, including his pregnant wife. They killed another uncle of mine.
The recent trial of Pol Pot by his fellow Khmer Rouge members has brought some relief to me and other Cambodian survivors in the United States. But justice has not yet been done. Pol Pot should be tried by an international tribunal for crimes against humanity.
Most of us are still coping with the horror we suffered during the Khmer Rouge's rule from ...