Hatt Sak

Our dedicated volunteers pressed onward, traversing the verdant landscape, en route to another survivor’s residence. Upon arrival, they were warmly greeted by Grandma Hatt Sak. Hatt Bak, a 56-year-old survivor, presently finds herself without employment, shouldering the responsibility of caring for her grandchildren. Amidst the harrowing era of the regime, her assigned duty entailed the production of fertilizers, yet she constantly lived in fear of her own mortality, necessitating perpetual evasion. Bearing witness to the abhorrent acts of violence perpetrated by the Khmer Rouge, she carries the indelible scars of those experiences. Furthermore, even in her formative years, she was deprived of an education and compelled to join the children’s unit in 1975. She recounted the agonizing tortures inflicted upon her and her fellow children by the Khmer Rouge, subjecting them to the torment of swarming, pain-inflicting giant ants. Tragically, Grandma also endured the loss of two family members at the hands of this regime.