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Krang Troup
Loung and her family move in the village Krang Troup, with Loung's Uncles help. -
Khmer Rouge invades Phnom Penh
After years of war, Khmer Rouge took over Phnom Penh. City dwellers were forced to become agricultural workers in the country. You aren't aloud to use money, a lot of people starve and die, and religon is banned. This is now Cambodia year zero. -
Phnom Penh Falls
The Khmer Rouge capture Phnom Penh and government forces surrender -
Waiting Station and New Village
Ung family has to go to waiting station because where they are stayigng isnt safe. The Anglungthmor is the family's new village -
Labor Camps
Labor camps are fastly forming, the army recruits young and able bodied boys. If you refuse to join the army then you are marked a traitor or killed. A new constitution was adopted. They won't recruit you if you are married, because they know that you will evetually have kids and if they are sons then they can eventually recruited. -
Leaving Home
Loung left Ma and Geak, also left the Ro Leap village. A fight breaks out in Vietnam. -
Child Soliders
Loung got promoted at a child soilder camp.
Children that were stong enough or able, they were forced into training to eventually go into war. -
Khemer Rouge Attack
Khemer Rouge attacked in the middle of the night only killing one girl. The Rise of the Khmer Rouge The Cambodian communist movement emerged from the country’s struggle against French colonization 1940s, and was influenced by the Vietnamese. Fueled by the first Indochina War in the 1950s, and during the next 20 years, the movement took roots and began to grow. http://www.cambodiatribunal.org/history/cambodian-history/khmer-rouge-history/ -
Cambodia to Vietnam
Chou and Loung left the Vietnam by boat, to America.
30,000 Vietnamese troops died before the withdrawl of Khmer Rouge. About two million people were belived to have died under Khmer Rouge. -
Lam Sing Refugee Camp
Exsisted from 1976 to 1981, families were given wooden huts. They stayed there and waited for sponsors from family or friends, you could not immigrate without being sponsored.
