Yesterday, the first senior leaders of the Khmer Rouge were charged guilty of “crimes against humanity” or genocide. The two old leaders were given life sentences. In the last hundred years alone some of the most evil people in history have walked the earth. They include: Adolf Hitler who killed more than 12 million people,…
By Noit Hyde (Translated by Steve) When Steve wanted to go on this walk remembering the walk that I had made with my sister more than thirty years ago, I didn’t want him to do it. I knew it was a difficult journey and I thought since I already went through great difficulty, why should…
When we hear the word “traitor” we think of someone stealing state secrets on military weapons design, or some classified aircraft part. In Cambodia, under the Khmer Rouge a traitor was anyone who stole from “Ongka”. Ongka was what the Khmer Rouge called themselves. It is a word which just means “organization”. Everything, literally, was…
Walking the Freedom Walk, by re-tracing the route that my wife walked on her journey to freedom from the genocide of the Khmer Rouge, has opened up so many emotions to my son and I which we could not have expected. While I have heard the stories of atrocities from my wife and others about…
“A day will come when we will chase a dog because he has a grain of rice stuck on his tail.” This may have a strange sound to it, but this was a prophecy which Noit’s grandmother had in her heart many years before war broke out in Cambodia. This being so, whenever she made…
Life previous to the Khmer Rouge take over in 1975 was not good. Cambodia was entwined in the Vietnam War because of its proximity to the war zone. Cambodia shares a several hundred mile long border with Vietnam. Do you may remember Kent State riots and killings of university students in the US that was…
As we walk down the road I seem to be constantly talking with people, if not my son. I wave at every kid who walks to school. I talk to teachers coming out of schools. I greet everyone on a bicycle. I say hello to people who watch little stalls and sellers in markets. Pretty…
On March 4, 2003 my father was martyred by terrorists in Davao City, Philippines. Though the bomb was placed directly behind my father was not the only one to die; more than twenty other Filipinos were killed and more than 150 wounded. On that day, Islam got hundreds of more foes. Now consider Iraq and…
I did not know any history of the Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda, and just assumed it was another right-wing fundamental denomination gone bad. The Lord’s Resistance Army, in fact, has nothing to do with Jesus, nor Christianity. It is a tool of Satan to destroy lives. In John 10:10 Jesus states the plans of…
When I arrived in Cambodia in 1994, I was sure surprised when I found out one of their many holidays was “The Day of Hate”. April 17th is the Day of Hate, if you are interested. It marks the day on April 17, 1975 when the Khmer Rouge completed their conquest of Cambodia. As a result 3.1 million people died.