A conversation with Les Sillars




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Summary: Today, Warren Smith talks with journalist Les Sillars about his new book "Intended for Evil: A Survivor's Story of Love, Faith, and Courage in the Cambodian Killing Fields." Regular readers of WORLD Magazine probably already know Les Sillars' name. Over the years, he has written many stories for the magazine while he has pursued a career as a professor of journalism at Patrick Henry College in northern Virginia. In "Intended for Evil," Sillars tells the story of Radha Manickam, who became a Christian as a young man in his native Cambodia. When Khmer Rouge forces overtook Phnom Pehn in 1975, Radha became an eyewitness to one of the great horrors of the 20th century. More than 1.7-million Cambodians, including most of Radha's own family, died of starvation, disease, and mass murder in what came to be called The Killing Fields of Cambodia.