When the Khmer Rouge gorilla took over they did not start to do any killing yet. However, they didn't hesitate in making my whole family work for them 24 hours a day without giving us a chance to rest. Each day, I slept about one to two hours at most. When I was a little boy at the age of eight, I use to get up at one o'clock in the morning to go to the barn and herd the cows. I also had to go to the rice field and pick up loose crop after harvest, to the barns and to take out the cow manure. My father was very surprised and happy with my ability to handle the workload so he gave me a Garuda patch. Garuda was a mythical bird that was a sign of courage.

At that time, I worked and work, and I never received ample sleep. Their reason for our constant work was we needed to produce more food or our country might fall into a state of famine.

Then, at the end of 1975, after we worked so hard for them and they decided that they had had enough of my family and the other nine family in the area, they decided to force us out of the area, which according to them was execution. They gathered about ten families together and forced us out and told us that we will go to another area, which was called Thaa-genh, in the Battambong Province. And when we arrived there, they planned to execute us all.

I am currently stationed in Thailand with my family waiting for this war to end. Luckily all members of my family are still alive.

At that time, we really wanted to get away from that area, but we couldn't escape because if we tried to do so, they would try to kill us on the account of being traitors, and that we didn't care about our country.

Soon, after a while, my parents figured that out that it is not going to be safe to live there because soon, the large groups of Khmer Rouge going to march into Phnom Penh and take over the capital. So, we decided to travel across from Phnom Penh back to Battambong so that we can stay in Thailand for a while until this raged war over.

Cambodia as a whole, was so technologically lacking, they couldn't even begin to imagine how much easier their work could have been with the proper tools. Pol Pot adopted a policy of isolationism because of his unwillingness to modernize. He encouraged great agricultural revolution without even thinking about its consequences.

There was never a point in our long workdays that I could relax and unwind. I always had to sleep with a certain unattainable feeling of horror. When I awoke in

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