These are the entries born in the country of Cambodia or the geographic equivalent of that country. Entries: Khieu Ponnary, The First Woman in Cambodia to Graduate High School and Later the First Wife of Pol Pot
Category: Cambodia’s Own
478) Khieu Ponnary
“In the name of a radical utopia, the Khmer Rouge regime had turned most of the people into slaves. Husbands were separated from wives, parents from children. Holidays, music, romance and entertainment were banned. Dictatorial village leaders and soldiers told the people whom to marry and how to live, and those who disobeyed were killed….