{"id":852,"date":"2015-04-18T18:44:06","date_gmt":"2015-04-18T18:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/?p=852"},"modified":"2015-04-19T09:04:48","modified_gmt":"2015-04-19T09:04:48","slug":"forty-years-post-khmer-rouge-new-generation-returns-to-cambodia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/?p=852","title":{"rendered":"Forty Years Post-Khmer Rouge, New Generation Returns to Cambodia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.theplatform.com\/p\/2E2eJC\/nbcNewsOffsite?guid=a_jsw_cambodia_ron_150416\" width=\"635\" height=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Decades after his parents fled the country following the brutal genocidal Khmer Rouge regime that would ultimately kill an estimated 1.7 million people, Ung left America &#8211; and all its comforts &#8211; to return to his family&#8217;s homeland of Cambodia, a country where poverty is striking, heat unrelenting, and cultural norms sometimes perplexing for those who are unaccustomed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/asian-america\/forty-years-post-khmer-rouge-new-generation-returns-cambodia-n334846\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-853 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/cambodia_return.jpg\" alt=\"cambodia_return\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/cambodia_return.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/cambodia_return-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/cambodia_return-199x133.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">During and after the nearly four-year Khmer Rouge reign, several hundred thousand Cambodians fled, becoming refugees in faraway countries. In the U.S., many ended up in places like Long Beach, California, or Lowell, Massachusetts. Now, many of children of those who left are returning to their family&#8217;s homeland, eager to learn about a country, culture and history that has shaped them since they were born. (Words by Kristi Eaton, Multimedia by Nicolas Axelrod and Thomas Cristofoletti\/Ruom\/for NBC News)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><a style=\"color: #808080;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/asian-america\/forty-years-post-khmer-rouge-new-generation-returns-cambodia-n334846\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/asian-america\/forty-years-post-khmer-rouge-new-generation-returns-cambodia-n334846<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Nicolas Axelrod and Thomas Cristofoletti are multimedia journalists based in Cambodia and associated with Ruom,\u00a0an organic collaboration between photographers, journalists, videographers, and researchers, drawn together by a passion for social documentary work. &#8211; See more at: <span style=\"color: #808080;\"><a style=\"color: #808080;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ruom.net\/about-us\/#sthash.SLWJSABe.dpuf\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.ruom.net\/about-us\/#sthash.SLWJSABe.dpuf<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Decades after his parents fled the country following the brutal genocidal Khmer Rouge regime that would ultimately kill an estimated 1.7 million people, Ung left America &#8211; and all its comforts &#8211; to return to his family&#8217;s homeland of Cambodia, a country where poverty is striking, heat unrelenting, and cultural norms sometimes perplexing for those &#8230; <a title=\"Forty Years Post-Khmer Rouge, New Generation Returns to Cambodia\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/?p=852\" aria-label=\"Mehr Informationen \u00fcber Forty Years Post-Khmer Rouge, New Generation Returns to Cambodia\">Weiterlesen<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=852"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":859,"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852\/revisions\/859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}