Encyclopedia of Asian-American Literature
Seiwoong Oh
Ngor,. Haing. (ca. 1947–1996) Born in Samrong Young, a village south of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Ngor earned a medical degree from the national university in Phnom Penh and worked as a doctor in the government''s military hospital. On April 17, 1975, he was operating on a wounded soldier when Khmer Rouge soldiers burst into the operating room ordering immediate evacuation. Ngor and staff fled the hospital and joined other Cambodians in a mass exodus to the countryside, ...