![]() ![]() ![]() Year of the Rabbit is based on firsthand accounts, all told from the perspective of his parents and other close relatives. Immediately after declaring victory in the war, they set about evacuating the country’s major cities with the brutal ruthlessness and disregard for humanity that characterized the regime ultimately responsible for the deaths of one million citizens.Ĭartoonist Tian Veasna was born just three days after the Khmer Rouge takeover, as his family set forth on the chaotic mass exodus from Phnom Penh. In 1975, the Khmer Rouge seized power in the capital city of Phnom Penh. Year of the Rabbit tells the true story of one family’s desperate struggle to survive the murderous reign of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. ![]() The comics form allows readers understand through chronological progression and a close view how horror can become the stuff of the everyday."- The New York Times One family’s quest to survive the devastation of the Khmer Rouge ![]()
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