StoryCorps Northwest: Surviving the Khmer Rouge
Millions died under Cambodia’s communist regime. Sinoun Hem, of Tacoma, was a young girl when the Khmer Rouge came to power. She tells her friend Fauluaina Pritchard her about how she was taken from her family and forced into a child work camp.
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