In Cambodia, children were used to carry out a communist revolution. The Khmer Rouge used many strategies to attract children and young people to become their followers. Recruiting children to work for and fight in the revolution was a method that Pol Pot adapted from China’s Mao Zedong’s during Mao’s “Great Leap Forward” campaign which preceded the country’s Cultural Revolution. Kong Son, who was recruited to be a Khmer Rouge soldier and later became a child Unit Leader, discusses his experience before and during the Khmer Rouge regime.