Escaping the Khmer Rouge

A Cambodian Memoir

Nonfiction, History, Military, Vietnam War, Asian, Biography & Memoir
Cover of the book Escaping the Khmer Rouge by Chileng Pa, Carol A. Mortland, McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
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Author: Chileng Pa, Carol A. Mortland ISBN: 9781476628288
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers Publication: February 10, 2017
Imprint: Language: English
Author: Chileng Pa, Carol A. Mortland
ISBN: 9781476628288
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Publication: February 10, 2017
Imprint:
Language: English

The Khmer Rouge ruled Cambodia for three years, eight months and twenty days. After overthrowing Lon Nol in April 1975 and establishing a so-called Democratic Kampuchea, the Communist-sponsored government was responsible for the deaths of as many as two million people, almost one-third of the country’s population. Here, Chileng Pa vividly recalls life under the Cambodian Communists. Attempting to conceal his identity as a policeman for the previous government, Chileng changed his name and moved his family to the village of Prayap, near the Vietnamese border. In April of 1977, after two years of starvation and cruelty at the hands of the Khmer Rouge, Chileng was forced to watch as Communist guerillas brutally murdered his wife and two-year-old son. With nothing left for him in Prayap Chileng fled to Vietnam, but eventually returned to Cambodia as part of a Vietnamese invasion force that would end the bloody reign of the Khmer regime. In 1981 Chileng and his new family found their way to America. His “simple strand of remembrance” serves to honor all those who died at the hands of the Khmer Rouge.

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The Khmer Rouge ruled Cambodia for three years, eight months and twenty days. After overthrowing Lon Nol in April 1975 and establishing a so-called Democratic Kampuchea, the Communist-sponsored government was responsible for the deaths of as many as two million people, almost one-third of the country’s population. Here, Chileng Pa vividly recalls life under the Cambodian Communists. Attempting to conceal his identity as a policeman for the previous government, Chileng changed his name and moved his family to the village of Prayap, near the Vietnamese border. In April of 1977, after two years of starvation and cruelty at the hands of the Khmer Rouge, Chileng was forced to watch as Communist guerillas brutally murdered his wife and two-year-old son. With nothing left for him in Prayap Chileng fled to Vietnam, but eventually returned to Cambodia as part of a Vietnamese invasion force that would end the bloody reign of the Khmer regime. In 1981 Chileng and his new family found their way to America. His “simple strand of remembrance” serves to honor all those who died at the hands of the Khmer Rouge.

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