So many victims of the Khmer Rouge have been reluctant to talk about their experiences. Intellectuals were specifically targeted, and one estimate in "Angkor Awakens" puts the death toll among doctors, lawyers, artists and others at 90 percent. Angkar is your family," one Khmer Rouge leader tells them, using the name for the new leadership. Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot died almost two decades ago, but the story of his regime isn't entirely in the past. The legacy of the Khmer Rouge, he says, is a "culture of war, confrontation and violence."

Source: Daily Sun September 24, 2017 04:12 UTC