Country Quote by Loung Ung

“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

Millions also perished in the Chinese camps, and there have been terrible genocides in Cambodia and Vietnam.

— Jean-Marie Le Pen

“The 20th century merits the name "The Century of Murder." 1915 Turks slaughtered 2 million Armenians. 1933 to 1954 the Soviet government encompassed the…

— Raul Hilberg

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

“how the Khmer Rouge had multiplied and risen to power. It was due to four years of bombing, ordered by Washington, D.C. to destroy…

— Jennifer H. Lau

Exterminate the 50 million Vietnamese and purify the masses of the [Cambodian] people.

— Pol Pot

[During the 20th century] ... 170 million men, women, and children have been shot, beaten, tortured, knifed, burned, starved, frozen, crushed, or worked to…

— Rudolph Rummel

Two thousand people a day were being murdered in Vietnam in a terrorist war, an official terrorist war.

— Bill Ayers

“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

“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

“Work, then, institutionalizes homicide as a way of life. People think the Cambodians were crazy for exterminating themselves, but are we any different? The…

— Bob Black

People of my generation did not like very much to tell what we lived through during the Khmer Rouge regime.

— Rithy Panh