Both Chanrithy Him and Savuth Penn were born in Cambodia. Their peaceful lives were shattered when the Khmer Rouge overtook the government. Genocides were committed and family members were lost.
Both Chanrithy Him and Savuth Penn were still children at that time.
Chanrithy wrote, When Broken Glass Floats, a memoir that narrates what happened in her life during those tumultuous times.
Savuth Penn also wrote his experience in a book entitled "Children of Cambodia’s Killing Fields."
