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Moun Sinarth, works in Siem Reap, at the War Museum, in the old days a minefield. He works there for 18 years. In 1979, after the liberation, he joined the Vietnamese troops, "I had to join the army to have food," he says. With 13 years old, he becomes a soldier in the Vietnamese army, where he fought for 10 years against khmer rouge forces. At the museum, Moun is known as "The Cat," because he survived three times to AK47 shoots and 5 to landmines - Cambodia is one of the five countries with more landmines in the world. He lost one leg and one eye. Today the boy soldier feels a huge revolt against the past, says, "We need to remember what happened, the past, everything." "I'm not interested in nothing, I only want to guide the people and get some conditions for my family. I don't care about anything, because I only have a leg and one eye, it's very difficult to describe everything." Between April of 1975 and January of 1979, the Khmer Rouge regime was responsible for the death of about 2 million people in Cambodia, in one of the most lethal political regimes of the 20th century. 2019 marked the 40th anniversary of the fall of the Khmer Rouge regime. Nokor Krao, Cambodia.