sokphal din survived four years in what became known as the killing fields.ng, this piece contains some distressing images. the cambodian people are the victims of a hideous experiment in communism that failed. the khmer rouge guerrillas triumphed in the spring of 1975. the 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, havin

sokphal din, who regularly speaks to children in schools about the dangers of political extremism.of the world famous children's story the little prince disappeared in his plane over the south of france. he solved the mystery of the missing plane. translation: after so many years searching across the mediterranean it is here that we saw the wreckage of the plane belonging to the author of the little prince. this place had become inhabited by the little prince, from eating out lies here under the sea and marseilles. it's his refuge. antoine de saint—exupery or saint x, he is universally revered and france not just of the author of the little prince but as a pioneering air man and romantic free spirit. there was also at the mystery of his death. translation: i became interested in the disappearance of him because i read his books when i was young and his thinking came to influence me throughout my life. and france we tend to say that you need to read it in two different stages of your life. it was not until i was 40 that i came to understand it and all its subtleties. onjuly the 31st