Cham Muslims Living on the Mekong River

MEKONG RIVER, CAMBODIA - DECEMBER 7: Cham Muslims live on the waters of the Mekong River in wooden narrow boats to escape continued onshore Khmer persecution and isolation on December 7, 2017. They live mostly from fishing, using nets, then sell their fish through ‘middle-men’ on the banks of the river. During the brutal Pol Pot Khmer Rouge regime of the 1970’s, over 100,000 Cambodian Muslims - or half their population- was killed during the ethnic genocide. The Mekong is the world’s 12th longest river and runs some 2,700 miles from the Tibet plateau in the north through China, Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia spilling through the delta of South Vietnam into the South China Sea. (Photo by Giles Clarke/Getty Images)