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By NANCY CRAKER-YAHMAN

 A few Saturdays ago, I visited the Amherst Historical Society. While it wasn’t my first visit, I especially wanted to see the Cambodians in Amherst exhibit because of my close connection to the exhibit content and one of its hosts, Mr. Sohken Mao, an...

By STEVE PFARRER

Not long after 20 years of war finally ended in Vietnam in 1975, another wave of horrendous violence erupted just to the west.The Khmer Rouge, the Communist party of Cambodia, seized control of the country and began a brutal “reeducation” campaign...