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Cambodians confront taboo on Khmer Rouge sex crimes

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Um Nit, a survivor of forced marriage during the Khmer Rouge's "Killing Fields" rule between 1975 and 1979, washes dishes at a water pump at her home in Svay Rieng province, Cambodia. Now in her 50s, Um Nit had never set eyes on the man she married until her wedding day. | Pring Samrang

Net Savoen still wakes up screaming, reliving the evening she and about 30 other women were dragged to a forest by Khmer Rouge cadres. The women had been resting after a day of digging a pit in the sweltering heat. The soldiers tied their hands and raped them. When they were done, they began slitting the women's throats. Savoen was the last to be taken.


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