“Estimates of the number of people who died at the hands of the Khmer Rouge — killed, worked to death in rural labor camps that came to be known as the “killing fields,” from lack of food and medical care — range from around 500,000 to 2 million. Church records say Cambodia had 65,000 Catholics in 1970, but only 1,000 or so Cambodian Catholics were alive when Vietnamese troops forced the Khmer Rouge from power in 1979. Foreign missioners were deported, and no Cambodian priests or nuns in the country survived.” Full article here.
