Don Cormack, author of Killing Fields, Living Fields, describes to Peter Lewis what life was like before the Khmer Rouge seized control, and tells how the Cambodian church is now faring.
PL: Don, I'd like to start with you. What kind of home did you grow up in?
DC: I was born in August 1945 just as the Second World War was drawing to its conclusion. Six months earlier, my father, a young Scotsman, had been killed on the Dutch-German border. Among his few belongings sent back to my mother was his Bible, in which he had inscribed Joshua 1.9: 'Be strong and courageous. Do not be terrified; do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go.' It was all the advice I ever had from a father I never knew, so I have always tried to live by it. My mother remarried but my stepfather died tragically when I was three.
