Top Highlights

• They had grown up under the coddling, dictatorial rule of Prince Norodom Sihanouk. Sihanouk came to the throne
• two million of their people
• Mey Komphot was thirty-seven years old when the war in his country ended.
• Komphot epitomized all that the Khmer Republic and its American sponsors claimed to be fighting to protect.
• The leaders promoted by the Khmer Rouge during the war were men and women Komphot and his generation had long admired.