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Mae Bunseng Taing

Mae Bunseng Taing
Survivor of the Khmer Rouge genocide in Cambodia
www.underthenagatail.com/about
Genocide

Left on a Mountain to Die

An excerpt from Under the Naga Tail: The escape from the Cambodian Genocide

March 22, 2023 • by James Taing and Mae Bunseng Taing
An excerpt of Under the Naga Tail, the memoir of a refugee who escaped the Killing Fields in Cambodia....

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