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...little later, that society was annihilated. The tutor, Khieu Samphan, turned out to be one of its executioners as a leader of the Khmer Rouge, which disposed of roughly 2 million Cambodians -- nearly a quarter of the country's population -- in just four years...
Another morning, in April 1975, as the Mays are relaxing over breakfast, the capital is suddenly stormed by the Khmer Rouge, and everything is abruptly swallowed up in the shadow world. As the country descends into anarchy, the 17-year-old narrator becomes a fugitive. Packing up his treasured copies of Animal Farm and Rebecca, he is driven in the family Land Rover through a boulevard of corpses, out into the wasted fields. Suddenly, the children who loved to listen to ghost stories are living them...
...recently published memoir that covers much the same killing ground. Yet May is unusually sensitive to the monstrous ironies of a world turned inside out. While some peasants starved, others, suddenly allowed to eat, gorged themselves till they burst. Having outlawed all emotion and distinction, the Khmer Rouge found that they had also abolished all expertise, so that the "whole society was working at maximum -- and brutally enforced -- inefficiency." And even after the murderers were routed, there was no release: the Cambodians who were still left found themselves squeezed between their two bitter enemies, the Thais and the Vietnamese. Those...
...sitting on the porch of her thatched hut in a United Nations encampment two miles inside Thailand last week, when the shells began to come in. "I heard a long whistle in the sky--then boom!" she said later. Sad Rod was one of 59 Khmer Rouge refugees wounded, and her four-year-old daughter was among eleven people killed, in an unusually savage attack by Vietnamese forces inside Kampuchea...
...discourage guerrilla raids by Khmer resistance fighters based in Thailand, the Viet Nam-backed Kampuchean government is continuing to work at sealing off the border with Thailand by building walls and ditches reinforced with barbed wire and mines. But even if the huge project is completed, it will be almost impossible for the Kampucheans to close the entire 300-mile frontier...