Cambodia 50 years on: Stories from the killing fields

It is 50 years since the brutal Khmer Rouge seized power in Cambodia. Their genocide resulted in the deaths of 1.5-2 million people in the four years that followed. Here, the testimony of Christians from that time echoes down the years.

You are about to read some remarkable stories, writes Julia Cameron in the foreword to the book from which these accounts are drawn. They will stay with you. I’m sure of that.

Don Cormack’s Killing Fields, Living Fields, from which these excerpts are taken, traces the journey of the Cambodian church, from its early beginnings among a few Battambang rice farmers in the 1920s through to the present day. We hope these vignettes may make you want to read more.