Cambodia genocide survivor makes ‘homecoming’ to PH

When Youk Chhang first set foot in the Philippines in 1986, he said it felt like he was making his first steps to “heaven.”

After all, it marked the start of the arduous journey to freedom for the young Cambodian refugee who had lost his childhood and suffered years of torment and torture under the brutal Khmer Rouge regime.

At the Philippine Refugee Processing Center at Morong in Bataan province, he was finally free from the bloodbath that killed five of his eight siblings, his father and nearly 60 relatives.

Read the full story: https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cambodia-genocide-survivor-makes-homecoming-ph

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