Youk Chhang
Letter to The Phnom Penh Post
All female survivors of Democratic Kampuchea are heroines of Cambodia.
Seventy percent of the survivors of the Khmer Rouge regime were women; most of them were widows.
Since the collapse of the Khmer Rouge regime in 1979, women have been a central force in the reconstruction of the nation.
They reshaped the nation’s economy during the tumultuous decades of the 1980s and 1990s, when civil war with the Khmer Rouge ensued and economic sanctions stunted chances for development.
Furthermore, it was through their unwavering efforts that Cambodian culture, education and traditions – which nearly vanished at the hands of the Khmer Rouge – were reinstituted in the social fabric of daily life.
Under these difficult circumstances, the women of Cambodia demonstrated great strength and resilience.
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