Saturday, April 17, 2010

Life under the KR - Story by Anonymous

Friday, April 16, 2010
Story by Anonymous

The KR came for my father in the middle of the night. He was a soldier fighting against them before they came to power. He fled through the back door leaving my mother, little baby sister, and me. My other brother was put in a youth camp, he repeatedly got tortured by suffocation in plastic bag over his head. This had affected him mentally until this day.

So they took three of us at gunpoint to their camp. There, my mother and I were put in shackle to our ankle in a feces and urine infested room and fed watery porridge with few grains of rice in a bowl. Other prisoners were being tortured and sent to their death every night.

My father surrender himself - he walked to the camp when he heard through flyers that the KR will kill the three of us. The KR grabbed him, tied him up and later released us.

During our release, I saw my father chopping wood under the KR watchful eyes. He looked at me as though to tell me to get away as fast as I can. That's the last time we ever saw him. Years later we found out that the KR took him to 'Kach Rotess', another execution camp at the outskirt of Battambang.

I've visited the site where they had us locked up, it was a tear-jerker. They used WAT JENG, in Osalov, Battambang as their camp. Osalov- is a name of district in countryside about 20 minute ride from the city.

I want to go testify in the tribunal, but I can't go due to time restriction from work.

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

it's interest to read or heard about stories from everyone during the KR period. the stories are all sad, but interesting nevertheless. god bless all khmer people and cambodia.

Anonymous said...

the stupid KR leadership should be charged with blackmail the victims' families as well as for their brutal reign of fear and terror in the population. there is no good excuses whatsoever for the criminal KR regime, really! we demand justice for all khmer people and all victims under their rule!

Anonymous said...

there ought to be a KR museum based on stories and experiences from the survivors themselves in cambodia. i sure like to go to that museum to read, study and look around on my spare, leisure time. not only it creates some jobs, it also a tourist attraction in cambodia as well. think about it. we need to hear story from all victims and then save the documents at the KR museum in cambodia for all to study to read, to contemplate, to commemorate, to learn, etc, etc... this is good idea! god bless.

Anonymous said...

i know, my family had to burn all their irreplaceable photo album just to hide or conceal for safety reason. now, our family photo all done, and most people i heard did the same to hide their identity. during, you have to act dumb, act ignorant, etc, you stay alive, etc... it is one of true stories of real survival in the sea of pain, sufferings, and hardship and so forth. that's why i'm so proud of khmer people for having done through so much, and yet, most of us are resilient people on the planet. i can say all khmer people who lived through the stupid, atrocious KR period all went through similar tragedy and so on. sad, but also very educating. it was a rude awakening for most people as khmer people before the KR never experienced anything like this in their life time until the KR period, really!

Anonymous said...

IT IS A GOOD START AND MOST IMPORTANTLY THESE STORIES WILL LEAD TO SOME EXPLANATION OF HOW KILLINGS TAKEN PLACE.

THANKS KI.

Anonymous said...

well, you know, the first to be killed were gov't soldiers, gov't officials, etc... they were the first to be killed on the spot, literally speaking. i think it was about revenge and hatred at that time. i mean, the words they used to lure people into a truckload of people were that they were to receive the ex-king sihanouk arriving in cambodia from abroad. so people, believe them and went along and as the truckload of people went outside of the city limit, they all were shot or killed execution style as reported by many eyewitnesses. and also, they KR soldiers told city people to evacuate only for temporary to avoid being bombed by american nuclear bombs, etc... so people believe them and went along without taking their possessions with them, and only took the most essential possession like cooking pots and pans and utensils, and only a handful of clothes for changing, etc... that's what happened in the very beginning.

Anonymous said...

1) Kampuchea Democratic vs. Khmer Republic
2) Khmer Republic overthrown
3) Killing Fields

Anonymous said...

You prove that Khmer rouges were not as bad as that, they didn't kill you, your brother, sister, mother, they even didn't kill your father who was KR ennemy..
You are better than those KR ?

Anonymous said...

On a lighter note the KR took all the lawyers, banksters, management consultants, accountants, along with the rest of the parasites bleeding society dry and shot them.
Where is the KR when we really need them now?