Escape from the Killing Fields

Sophal Ear, PhD

Assistant Professor
Naval Postgraduate School
TED-University Talk @ TED2009
6 Feb 2009, Long Beach, CA
Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), 1977
Me
Mom
Mom
Me
Sam
Sophie
Sopha
Dany
http://www.encyclomedia.com/video-khmer_rouge.html
The Khmer Rouge
in 50 Seconds
Our Home
on 04/17/75
Where I was born
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http://www.historyplace.com/worldhistory/genocide/khmer-rouge.jpg
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y263/smurf4christ/KhmerRougeSoldierWeb-1.jpg http://www.aliciapatterson.org/APF1601/Coburn/Coburn04.jpg
US Carpet
Bombing
http://www.japanfocus.org/images/UserFiles/Image/2420.kiernan.taylor.cambodiabombing/2(1).jpg
National Bank of Cambodia, 1975
http://www.yale.edu/cgp/images/pixbank1.gif
We ended-up in Pursat Province
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http://volunteers.rcnuwc.no/wp-content/uploads/2006/12/sustainable-cambodia.jpg
Forced to work the fields
http://www.cambodia.gov.kh/krt/english/introduction_eng/pic/Worker_p1.J PG
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2006/02/16/international/16camb583.jpg
http://cambodianjustice.blogspot.com/2007/11/background-on-khmer-rouge.html
My late father
Cause of death in J an 1976:
Malnutrition-induced dysentery
(2) Hong Ngu
(3) Chau Doc
(1) Koh Tiev
http://www.intute.ac.uk/sciences/worldguide/maps2/844_a.jpg
Hong Ngu, Vietnam
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/63/152834305_06d92ba9f0.jpg?v=1168231081
My Civil
Complaint to
the Khmer
Rouge Tribunal
Coming full circle, Chau Doc,
Vietnam, 2004, mom & me