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01 Apr, 2026

Healing from Genocide: Writing the Untold Stories

Kong Thyda, Cambodia
Photo: SGI-Cambodia

6 Min(s)

01 Apr, 2026

In April 1975, Cambodia entered one of the darkest periods in its history when the Khmer Rouge (Communist Party of Kampuchea) led by Pol Pot, seized power. Trying to take the country back to the Middle Ages, cities were emptied, and people were forced to work on communal farms in the countryside. Execution, starvation and overwork led to the death of an estimated two million people.

Kong Thyda, just 15 years old at the time it began, shares her story of the genocide in Cambodia and how her Buddhist practice has helped her to heal.

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