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Loung Ung
A survivor of the killing fields
Possibly the most famous of the books written about life under the Khmer Rouge — thanks to the recent Netflix release of the Angelina Jolie directed film adaptation — First They Killed My Father tells the story of Loung Ung. Told through the eyes of Loung, who was five years old when the Khmer Rouge stormed the capital Phnom Penh in April , the book tells her story of surviving the brutal work camps, of loss, determination, love and training as a child soldier. The beautifully written page-turner is often brutal, depicting the horror of life under the regime. Taking up where its predecessor left off, Loung is aged 10 when she is chosen to go with her brother to America, leaving one sister and two brothers behind. Here, the story follows the parallel lives of herself and her sister, Chou.
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and the ghastly images of the killing fields made a strong impression on me. But it was not until I moved to Cambodia in that the country.
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1. A Dragon Apparent
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During the past half-century, U. The Vietnam conflict, extended into Cambodia in , ended up with a communist victory in South Vietnam and an imposed dictatorship there. The Cambodian result was even worse: Not only dictatorship but the murder of 1. We were in a hallway at Patrick Henry College, where we both taught. David, a senior Time correspondent for many years, had heard from mutual friends an incredible tale about a Cambodian Christian who had survived the Khmer Rouge in the late s. According to David, this person wanted someone to write down his stories.
This extraordinary book contains eyewitness accounts of life in Cambodia during Pol Pot's genocidal Khmer Rouge regime from to , written by survivors who were children at the time. The memoirs were gathered by Dith Pran, whose own experiences in Cambodia were so graphically portrayed in the film The Killing Fields. These testimonies bear shattering witness to the slaughter committed by the Khmer Rouge. Their photograps accompany their stories. They speak of their bewilderment and pain as Khmer Rouge cadres tore their families apart, subjected them to brainwashing, drove them from their homes to work in forced-labor camps, and executed captives in front of them. Their stories tell of suffering, the loss of innocence, the struggle to survive against all odds, and the ultimate triumph of the human spirit. Cover illustration: Cambodian children in front of a Buddhist temple used as a killing field during the Khmer Rouge regime.
First They Killed My Father by Luong Ung
The Killing Fields by Christopher Hudson
They find [in Nuon Chea] a faithful son and loyal husband, an idealist, ascetic, and moral purist who blames the Cambodian people for being too corrupted by imperialism and capitalism to implement the pure-minded plans of the Angka "organization".
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