Children of Cambodia's Killing Fields

Memoirs by Survivors (Southeast Asia Studies)

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Children of Cambodia's Killing Fields

Memoirs by Survivors (Southeast Asia Studies)

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This extraordinary book contains eyewitness accounts of life in Cambodia during Pol Pot's genocidal Khmer Rouge regime from 1975 to 1979, accounts 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. The contributors - most of them now living in the United States and pictured in photographs that accompany their stories - report on life in Democratic Kampuchea as seen through children's eyes. 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.

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English
Pages
220

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Cover of: Children of Cambodia's Killing Fields
Children of Cambodia's Killing Fields: Memoirs by Survivors
2010, Yale University Press
in English
Cover of: Children of Cambodia's Killing Fields
Children of Cambodia's Killing Fields: Memoirs by Survivors
1997, Yale University Press
in English
Cover of: Children of Cambodia's Killing Fields
Children of Cambodia's Killing Fields: Memoirs of Survivors
1997, Yale University Press
in English
Cover of: Children of Cambodia's Killing Fields
Children of Cambodia's Killing Fields: Memoirs by Survivors (Southeast Asia Studies)
April 24, 1997, Yale University Press
Hardcover in English

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First Sentence

"In April 1975 the revolutionary army of Democratic Kampuchea, commonly known as the Khmer Rouge, swept into Phnom Penh."

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Number of pages
220
Dimensions
8.5 x 5.8 x 0.9 inches
Weight
14.7 ounces

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL9570298M
ISBN 10
0300068395
ISBN 13
9780300068399
Library Thing
562074
Goodreads
918287

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