Plans to further promote the album were halted in April 1975 , when the Khmer Rouge defeated the Khmer Republic army and gained control of the country . The members of Drakkar are assumed to be among the two million residents of Phnom Penh who were forced to leave the city and become farm workers to fulfill the Khmer Rouge 's visions of agrarian socialism and the eradication of all foreign influences ( including music ) from Cambodian society . Group members Oer Sam Ol and Som Sareth disappeared during the ensuing Cambodian genocide and their exact fates are unknown . Singer/guitarist Touch Seang Tana was imprisoned in a work camp , and claims that he survived the genocide by singing Santana songs to Khmer Rouge soldiers on demand while passing himself off as a common peasant
Cambodian genocide
Cambodian genocide
Drakkar (band)