His
father -- the older brother of the ousted president --
and dozens of others were lined up at the Barclay Training
Center in Monrovia and executed by firing squad. Little
Alex was too young to understand what was happening.
The Khmer Rouge
army acted with such cruelty, one is reminded of the Holocaust.
Hundreds of thousands of Cambodians were murdered in "the
killing fields." Their only crime was being educated.