VANISHED: Stories from Cambodia’s New People under Democratic Kampuchea, Pivoine Beang and Wynne Cougill (2006)
For centuries, Cambodia’s rural peasants had lived in modest circumstances with few entitlements, while the country’s tiny urban elite enjoyed more opportunities and privileges. But in April 1975 when the Khmer Rouge took control of Cambodia, they reversed this social order. Hundreds of thousands of city dwellers were evacuated to the countryside, where they were […]