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Loy Keo, 63 years old, works for Buddhist monks, at the Wat Tmey Pagoda, near Nokor Krao village, 20 km’s from Siem Reap. She also studies Buddhism. Loy was 20 years old when Pol Pot reached the power. Separated from her family, she had to work in the rice fields and cut bamboo in deep waters between 7 and 17 hours a day. She and 31 other women were forced to marry, the Khmer Rouge chose their husbands. “I was lucky, he wasn’t a khmer rouge.” From that marriage, she had 15 sons, 10 survived. 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.