that first, it is a0 years since the end of the brutal regime of the khmer rogue and cambodia. around 2 million people are thought to have been killed under extremist rule. this man survived for years and what became known as the killing fields. a warning, this piece contains some distressing images. the cambodian people are the victims ofa the cambodian people are the victims of a hen that done experiment in communism that failed. the khmer rogue guerrillas tramped in the spring of 1975. @ emerged as the leader of the new cambodia let's pull pot. it was a living hell. you cannot imagine. for the communist regime time began when they took over, 1975 mccain year is zero, grotesque social engineering with class slaughter and mass uprooting of the population. they were extreme communist, year zero of the population. they were extreme coitiitiui'iist, year zero means we of the population. they were extreme communist, year zero means we start from scratch. no electricity, no books, no education, nothing. anyone educated had to be executed. doctors, teachers, and if you wear glasses,

the khmer rogue guerrillas triumphed in the spring of 1975. man who emerged as the leader of the new cambodia was pol pot. it was a living hell. you cannot imagine. for the communist regime, time began when they took over. for them, 1975 became year zero, a time of grotesque social engineering with class slaughter and mass uprooting of the population. they were extreme communists, year zero means we start from scratch. no electricity, no books, no education, nothing. anyone educated had to be executed. doctors, teachers, and if you wore glasses. i lost many of my relatives and theyjust executed them, took them away and i never saw them again. literally millions of people were marched out of phnom penh to the countryside to begin building the new society. at the time, i think i must have been 17. i remember that morning we were in the kitchen, having breakfast. i heard a knock at the door and i saw two sergeants who both pointed their guns at me and shouted at me to get out of my house, right now, or i will shoot you. everyone packed on the roa