First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers

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Arbitrary executions and torture were carried out by its cadres against perceived subversive elements, or during genocidal purges of its own ranks between 1975 and 1978. I finished it just as the sun started to rise and spent those first beautiful rays in complete thanksgiving: how lucky are we, who have lived so well, to be able to learn from those who have not had that chance. As the war ends, Loung along with her siblings Kim and Chou are reunited with their older brothers who also survived the camps. Today, I am no longer a quiet obedient secretary, but a bitter feminist bitch, and a lot more outspoken.

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If you cannot bring Pa home to us, please make sure they don’t hurt him, or please make sure Pa dies a quick death.

An author, lecturer, and activist, Loung Ung has advocated for equality, human rights, and justice in her native land and worldwide for more than fifteen years. First They Killed My Father by Loung Ung is a memoir of the author’s childhood living under the Pol Pot regime. Aside from hard work, the camp preaches the regime propaganda, and any foreign items (including life-saving medicine) are forbidden and carry a death penalty.

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When Broken Glass Floats was written by Chanrithy Him, who, like Ung, was a child during Pol Pot’s regime and recounts the horrors faced by her family of twelve. Ein autobiografisches Buch, in welchem ein Mensch seine Traumata der Kindheit aufarbeitet, in einem Land, in dem einer der schrecklichsten Genozide der jüngeren Vergangenheit stattfand, ist schwer zu bewerten bzw.

Diese Familiengeschichte ist harter Tobak und nichts für zarte Gemüter, dennoch sollten wir auch auf einen solchen grausamen "Krieg" (eigentlich ja nur Konflikt in einem Land) hinschauen. Harrowing yet hopeful, Loung's powerful story is an unforgettable account of a family shaken and shattered, yet miraculously sustained by courage and love in the face of unspeakable brutality.

First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers

Or later, when I went to college as a 40-year-old, I heard students attribute their success to Buddha. After three quiet months, they begin a harrowing boat journey and eventually reach the Lam Sing Refugee Camp in Thailand. Until the age of five, Loung Ung lived in Phnom Penh, one of seven children of a high-ranking government official.

You can't lie to me, those of you who still do not examine your beliefs and biases or ignorance or racial or cultural prejudices.