Remembering April 17
Sin Chhon wipes tears from her eyes and she and her daughter, Davik Teng, listen to stories about the khmer Rouge during a candle light vigil at a Buddhist Temple in Long Beach on April 17, 2008.
April 17 is the day the Khmer Rouge captured the Phnom Penh.
Wikipedia: The Khmer Rouge is remembered mainly for the deaths of an estimated 1.5 million people (estimates range from 850,000 to two million) under its regime, through execution, starvation and forced labor. Following their leader Pol Pot, the Khmer Rouge imposed an extreme form of social engineering on Cambodian society—a radical form of agrarian communism where the whole population had to work in collective farms or forced labor projects.
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