Surviving the Khmer Rouge: To the End of Hell with author Denise Affonço

  • Wednesday, Apr 22, 2009

  • Denise Affonço recounts how her comfortable life was torn apart when the Khmer Rouge seized power in Cambodia in April 1975. A French citizen she was offered the choice of fleeing the country with her children or staying by her husband's side. Chinese and a convinced communist, he believed that the Khmer Rouge would bring an end to five years of civil war. She decided that the family should stay together. But peace did not return and along with millions of their fellow citizens they were deported to the countryside to a living hell where they endured almost four years of hard labour, famine, sickness and death.

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    International Security Program
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    Economic Development and Reconstruction

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Center for Strategic & International Studies

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