Word: cambodians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Many in the Asian-American community, including local groups like the Cambodian American League of Lowell, have expressed concern that Asian Americans are no longer considered a disadvantaged minority...
...extremely disturbing that we should be entertaining the idea of forgetting about Cambodian genocide [WORLD, Aug. 16]. Have we so soon forgotten the lesson taught us by Hitler's Holocaust? The one lesson taught by that insane carnage is never to forget. If we allow the memory of such a horrific occurrence in Cambodia to fade from global memory, then there is a chance that it will happen again. Almost 2 million people were brutally slaughtered, but we're no closer to knowing why. The only man who could have told us easily, Pol Pot, died in 1998. The world...
...daughter of parents who fled Cambodia to escape the Khmer, I am disheartened to tell people where I am from and have them ask if Cambodia is in Africa. I know what the Cambodian people have suffered and what they will continue to suffer, in Cambodia and even here in the U.S. and wherever else Cambodian refugees have relocated. I hope people will read your article and will want to learn more about how Cambodia is still being pressured by the U.S. and other countries. Cambodia is one of the forgotten countries with a long, hard past and a long...
...midst of all this, the ones who live among ghosts conduct their own private investigations. "My friends think I'm crazy," says a well-to-do Cambodian who returned here from Canada. "People tell me, 'Why do you want to look at these things? It's easier to forget.' But I want to understand why it happened"--he means the self-extermination of his country--"so it will never happen again." When Pol Pot died, Keo Lundi, from the Tuol Sleng center, says, "I spent my own money to go to his province, to talk to his brother and sister...
...sunny holiday, as a visitor inspects carvings of demons and gods and mythological battles at the haunted temple of Angkor Wat, suddenly a Cambodian standing nearby clutches a pillar till his knuckles turn white. "Look," he says, swallowing. "There's Khieu Samphan!" He points to a trim elderly man in white shirt and slacks, walking with relatively little protection toward his helicopter. "He killed so many," says the visitor. "He killed my mother, my father," says the man, who was himself forced out of his home as a boy to work in the fields. Samphan and Nuon Chea, allowed...