Var Ashe Houston

Var Ashe Houston (born Var Hong, 1948 or 1949) is a survivor of the Cambodian genocide. She has resided in the United Kingdom since 1979 and has worked with organisations such as the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust to tell her story and educate the public about genocide.

Biography Houston was born in Takéo, in the south of Cambodia. She was raised by privileged and well-off parents who could afford to employ domestic helps in the house.

Houston was 26 when the Khmer Rouge took power of Cambodia in 1975.

Houston later escaped to Thailand with her daughters and one sister, leaving behind her mother and two sisters. They went on to have a son together in 1984