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A reported three-million tons of carpet-bombs were dropped on Cambodia by the USA in the 1970s, more than were unleashed on Germany during all of WWII.

MY TESTIMONY – Life Stories by Survivors of the Khmer Rouge. All Rights Reserved by TPO Cambodia.

Before the Khmer Rouge took power on 17 April, 1975, Haing Ngor was a successful gynecologist at a medical clinic in Phnom Penh. During the genocide, Ngor was arrested and severely tortured by the Khmer Rouge on three separate occasions. Each time, Ngor’s wife Huoy nursed him back to health from the brink of death. Ironically, near the end of the genocide, Huoy died in childbirth, because Ngor lacked the simple medical equipment to save her and their first child. Cambodia confronts its past as Khmer Rouge killer awaits court's verdict.

Image caption The Khmer Rouge drew influence from China's ruling Communist Party. Image caption Kaing Guek Eav - known as Duch - was jailed for life for his role in running the Tuol Sleng prison. Survivors told their stories to shocked audiences, and in the 1980s the Hollywood movie The Killing Fields brought the plight of the Khmer Rouge victims to worldwide attention.

Nuon Chea, 87, and Khieu Samphan, 82, are facing charges for their roles as leaders within the movement. Thursday’s verdict will be a landmark for the court, which has only tried and convicted one other Khmer Rouge member so far. But it could also be a disappointment for victims. Awaiting compensation.

The Cambodian Killing Fields are a number of sites in Cambodia where collectively more than a million people were killed and buried by the Khmer Rouge regime (the Communist Party of Kampuchea) during its rule of the country from 1975 to 1979, immediately after the end of the Cambodian Civil War (1970–1975). The mass killings are widely regarded as part of a broad state-sponsored genocide (the Cambodian genocide).