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When Soth Yun was a young woman, she spent years secretly in love, too frightened to reveal her feelings.

It was the 1970s, and Cambodia was under the control of the Khmer Rouge, a Maoist movement that imposed forced labour on Cambodians and deprived them of food and basic necessities, such as medicine. Anyone deemed an enemy of the government was executed.

People were also punished for having relationships that weren’t sanctioned by the government, which considered reproduction to be the sole purpose of sex.

Yun’s love was particularly subversive as it did not serve the government’s aim of increasing the population: she loved another woman.

Between 1975 and 1979, the years that the Khmer Rouge was in power, at least 1.7 million people died due to starvation, overwork or arbitrary killings. An estimated 13 to 30 percent of Cambodia’s population at the time perished under the Khmer Rouge.

The government separated families and segregated the population according to age and gender. People were considered tools for building a classless agrarian society.

It was these conditions that brought Yun and Houy Eang together.