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Sep 20, 2023 · Among the many Cambodians forcibly relocated to the countryside were Ngor and his wife, Chang My Huoy, who ended up in a forced labor camp. Huoy would tragically die during childbirth while...
Dec 27, 2022 · Ngor was born in Samrong Yong, Cambodia, hailing from a privileged Chinese Khmer family. Instead of following the family business, he became an obstetrician and gynecologist, as well as a medical officer in the Cambodian Army. He met his wife, Chang My Huoy while he was in medical school.
May 13, 2024 · Ngor and his wife, Chang My Huoy, were among those sent to forced-labour camps. Ngor pretended to be a taxi driver despite enduring torture to coerce him to confess his true livelihood, because intellectuals were being executed.
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He was expelled from Phnom Penh along with the bulk of its two million inhabitants as part of the Khmer Rouge's "Year Zero" social experiment and imprisoned in a concentration camp along with his wife, My-Huoy, who subsequently died giving birth, along with their unborn child.
Sep 20, 2023 · Ngor and his wife, Chang My Huoy, were forcibly relocated to a labor camp, where Huoy tragically died during childbirth. Ngor himself endured torture, starvation, and had to hide his medical background to survive.
Oct 7, 2010 · Most painfully of all, his beloved wife, Chang My Huoy, already half-dead from starvation, died while attempting to give birth to Ngor’s only child.
Sep 20, 2023 · Chang My Huoy, tragically died during childbirth while interred. But Ngor endured torture, and starvation, and concealed his role as a physician to avoid certain death. Before the Vietnamese army invaded and ousted Pol Pot in 1979, an estimated 1.5 to 2 million Cambodians had been killed.
