A Gentle Breeze From Gossamer Wings

by Gordon Beld
If you've forgotten about Cambodia in the 1970s, you'll be astonished by what happened, and you will get insights into what it means to be a refugee in a world where 40 million of the world's people no longer have the option of going home. Pol Pot was the Khmer Rouge leader whose reign of terror caused the death of up to 2 million Cambodians in the mid-1970s. He masterminded an extreme, Maoist-inspired revolution in which Cambodians died in mass executions, and from starvatio...