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Muslims in Cambodia are not allowed to live by their religion, use the Arabic alphabet, or per-
form their prayers. Those who violate these prohibitions are severely punished or executed. The
people are growing ever poorer: Their personal belongings have been confiscated by the state
and their rights taken away. They have no means of resisting the oppression of the Cambodian
government. The only option left for them is to flee. This picture shows Muslims fleeing that op-
pression under very difficult conditions.

Cambodia in 1979, the Khmer Rouge regime came to an end, although
the repression of Muslims continued unabated. The Vietnamese gov-
ernment, supported by the Soviets, carried on with the cruelty of the
Khmer Rouge. They employed the most repressive policies in order to
eliminate Islam entirely. The few places of worship left to the innocent
Muslims subjected to Vietnamese assaults were torn down, and reli-
gious figures were killed. Most of them were horribly tortured in prison
and used as forced labor.
Even today, it is still forbidden to spread Islam or to communicate
with Cambodians in other countries. Like many other features of
Islamic religious life, group worship is banned. The Vietnamese also