This is what the war has done to me. Now I want to destroy because of it. There is such hate and rage inside me now. The Angkar has taught me to hate so deeply that I now know I have the power to destroy and kill.

Loung Ung
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This is what the war has done to me. Now I want to destroy because of it. There is such hate and rage inside me now. The Angkar has taught me to hate so deeply that I now know I have the power to destroy and kill.

This quote by the Cambodian poet Khieu Samphan is an example of when war can alter your thinking. He says that he became a violent man after he was tortured by the Khmer Rouge during their regime in Cambodia in the 1970s, which ended in 1975 with his death in prison.

Source: First They Killed My Father: A Daughter Of Cambodia Remembers

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