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NickB79

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18. My best friend's parents escaped from there

Reply to Stuart G (Original post)

Thu Mar 30, 2017, 10:11 PM

Mar 2017

They had a successful restaurant when the Communists took power. They were thrown into the rice fields and lost everything. They had to watch their oldest son slowly die of disease and malnutrition. After fleeing through the forest, they eventually crossed the border and were welcomed to the US by a foster family. Today, they are looking to retire, having built a new life and successful business here.

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Don't ever think that the Holocaust can't happen again...It already has. In Cambodia.. [View all] Stuart G Mar 2017 OP

The movie about the Khmer Rouge is called "The Killing Fields." The Velveteen Ocelot Mar 2017 #1

Thank You for posting that..I have not seen it. Stuart G Mar 2017 #2

I had it on videocassette The Velveteen Ocelot Mar 2017 #3

Phew. Powerful film. Warren DeMontague Mar 2017 #13

I Met Dith Pran At A Luncheon A Few Years After The Movie... JimGinPA Mar 2017 #4

Haing S. Ngor (the actor who starred in that film as Dith Pran) was murdered tblue37 Mar 2017 #15

The worst part about the Killing Fields... Archae Mar 2017 #5

I wonder about why we don't know or outright ignore ProudLib72 Mar 2017 #6

You hit it !!..Stalin killed 20 million, 10 million, more, less.? Stuart G Mar 2017 #7

I've heard up to 30 million ProudLib72 Mar 2017 #9

I'm bothered by what we did to the Native Americans madokie Mar 2017 #8

Point taken ProudLib72 Mar 2017 #10

I was thinking the same thing.. Stuart G Mar 2017 #11

I think the film record of the concentration camps and the fact that Germany was a "civilized" tblue37 Mar 2017 #14

Rwanda was another genocidal massacre--800,000 ethnic Tsutis, tblue37 Mar 2017 #12

Yeah, I was going to mention Rwanda as well. Warren DeMontague Mar 2017 #16

Thank you ProudLib72 Mar 2017 #17

My best friend's parents escaped from there NickB79 Mar 2017 #18