When Rindo Nong jumped into the back of a Red Cross truck in 1979, he didn’t know where the truck was leading him. He was 21 years old. His country had been ravaged by genocide. The communist leader Pol Pot and his army, known as Khmer Rouge, had starved or murdered an estimated 3 million people, more than 25 percent of the population of Cambodia. Rindo’s family had spent the last four years in a work camp, digging ditches from 7 a.m. to midnight with little more than a cup of...
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