By Keo Kounila
Like many millions of Cambodians, my parents and their families were "evacuated" from Phnom Penh to the countryside on April 17, 1975, the day the Khmer Rouge took control of Cambodia.
The word 'evacuation' means 'sending people out to a safer place'. Yet, this term was gravely misused by the Khmer Rouge. The regime, known as Democratic Kampuchea, was the beginning of a period of horror. Groups of teenage boys, probably similar in age to my parents at that time, dressed in d...