Michael Connolly’s Reviews > Under the Naga Tail: A True Story of Survival, Bravery, and Escape from the Cambodian Genocide > Status Update

Vietnamese soldiers liberate prisoners of the Khmer Rouge

Angkar = Supreme Organization

Their ox was confiscated by KR soldiers, who said that all animals belonged to the Angkor.

Riel: currency
Choa: brother of Mae
Khmer Rouge abolished private ownership of land.
White means desth to ethnic Chinese

Victim of prejudice against both merchants and ethnic Chinese.
In April 1975 the Khmer Rouge orfered people to leave the cities, saying that the Americans were going to bomb the cities.
The family lived in Poipet, near the border with Thailand.
Choul Chnam Thmey: New Year Festival.
Qingming: Tomb-Sweeping Day festival.
Angkar: organization

Mae sold food; he was ethnic Chinese, living in Cambodia, near the border with Thailand. Youngest of 8 children. Mae and James, father and son; authors.
(This is the first book that I started reading at the Elms)

Khmer Rouge hated independent thought.