Forminable: Escape from Cambodian Genocide A Story Told by Rita Pin Ahren (Cambodian Diaspora) “My parents call me their lucky child. We escaped execution because I was born. Three days after my birth, a truck from the Khmer Rouge regime came for us. Because my mother was too weak from childbirth, they left my family behind but loaded my aunts and uncles. They never returned. An estimated 1.5 to 3 million Cambodians were killed by the regime led by Pol Pot. The village chief told my parents that