My Friends.

When the war with the Vietnamese started, they started recruiting anyone who wanted to be Khmer rouge. Me and my friends from the band volunteered to be Khmer rouge. we figured we had a better chance to survive, if we stayed and helped instead of  fleeing and be in hiding. We didn't get any training, we were just given guns and told to be careful. After that, all the kids i knew from the camp started dying. One of them even shot himself. 

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