At daybreak on the first day, thousands of Cambodians are…

“One in eight Cambodians – as many as 2 million people – were killed during the Khmer Rouge’s campaign to eradicate their country’s history.…

— Anthony Bourdain

“Several research studies have demonstrated that one-third to one-half of all Cambodians who lived through the Khmer Rouge era have PTSD, borne of their…

— Joel Brinkley

From 1975 to 1979 - through execution, starvation, disease, and forced labor - the Khmer Rouge systematically killed an estimated two million Cambodians, almost…

— Loung Ung

“កត្តាដែលភ្លេចអក្សរសាស្រ្តជាតិរបស់ខ្លួនហ្នឹង អាចនឹងធ្វើឲ្យពួក គេថ្ងៃក្រោយមិនអាចដឹងនូវ ដើមកំណើតឫសនៃមូលដ្ឋានជាតិរបស់គេនោះ កូនចៅខ្មែរក្រោមអាចនឹងកា្លយជាជនជាតិវៀត ណាមទៅវិញ ។ I think in the future, the younger generation of Khmer Krom people could forget the Cambodian national…

— Thach Preichea Koeun VOA News

“Even now, many Cambodians say they have no need for society’s modern inducements.”

— Joel Brinkley

Why should we flagellate ourselves for what the Cambodians did to each other?

— Henry A. Kissinger

For whatever reason, I don't know why, but Cambodians learned something in their suffering and their struggle that we have lost touch with.

— Angelina Jolie

When you're just a breath away from North Korea, it boggles your mind that that exists, or that something like the Khmer Rouge ever…

— Cedric Bixler-Zavala

“Perhaps the truth was that Hell wasn’t a physical location; it was an idea that could be summoned into being. Hell had been created…

— Marcus Sakey

“certain kinds of polities, communist party-states such as the Soviet Union, the People's Republic of China, and Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, are capable,…

— Timothy Snyder

“I'd have to, if on Sunday I wanted to run off with some "slack-jawed Suzy," some "invertebrate," a "post-pubescent wasteoid who imagines the Khmer…

— Marisha Pessl

“Richard Nixon was elected president mendaciously promising not victory, but a “secret plan” to bring the war to an “honorable end.” The secret plan…

— Mark Bowden

I, for one, will not have [the Vietcong] insulted by any comparison to the forces of Zarqawi, the Fedayeen Saddam, and the criminal underworld…

— Christopher Hitchens

The trial organized with U.N. participation of some kind will be for crimes committed by Khmer Rouge leaders from 1975 to 1979. That's it.

— Hun Sen

“To survive during the Khmer Rouge, you had to steal, cheat, lie, point fingers at others, even kill. And now you are ashamed.”

— Joel Brinkley