Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge followers once dreamt of a Cambodia where the people would be subservient only to Angka, the party, and erase all memory of their past. Now is the year zero, he once told Cambodians. As a consequence of this Khmer Rouge dream, 2 million Cambodians lost their lives.

Between 1975 and 1979, the Khmer Rouge forced millions of Cambodias urban populationthe intellectuals, professionals, workers-to live and work in the rural