Rattana Pok

When Slaves Became Masters: a True-life Story of a Little Boy Before, During and After the Unfathomable Evil of Pol Pot's Regime Rattana Pok

It is a true-life story that has created a gripping and tragic narrative of what Cambodia was like during the killing fields of Pol Pot regime from the perspective of an eleven-year-old-child survivor.

After a history of more than two thousand years of the Cambodian people, the communist regime stripped out the customs and beliefs, arts, way of life and parlance to suit the revolutionary idea of agrarian society where education, modern technology, entertainment and family bond were no longer regarded as essential.