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Maya Angelou Reads ‘Still I Rise’

May 29 Rest in Peace, Miss Angelou.

http://www.npr.org/2014/05/28/316728748/maya-angelou-reads-still-i-rise

Saving the Children

60 Minutes, 4/27/2014 This story will restore your faith in human goodness and humanity. Thank you, Nicholas Winton, you’re my hero. From 60 Minutes: “Nicholas Winton… went to Czechoslovakia to see if there was anything he could do to help. What’s strange is that for almost 50 years, he hardly told anyone about what he had accomplished and for 50 years, the children knew nothing about who had saved them or how.”

 

Surviving the Island of Widows,

Surviving the Island of Widows, a ‘prison without walls’ for women




Fri, 25 April 2014
Will Jackson

On the Tonle Bassac river lies the island where the Khmer Rouge kept the wives of its murdered male victims. Will Jackson reports.

After the Khmer Rouge came to Koh Khsach Tunlea, Sam Chang’s husband Eang Heang fled the island. As a lawyer, he was marked for death by a regime that wanted to wipe out all traces of the previous society.

 

Football Saved My Life

Watch this 3 min video and be inspired! For Linda football was her only chance to avoid an early marriage with a much older man. Succeeding in a football competition was the critical point in her life that allowed her to have a future very different from the one most girls in her community do.

Drone Documentary In Cambodia Captures Beauty And Delight Of Remote Villages (VIDEO)

“…filmmakers Roberto Serrini and Sami Joensuu traveled to the remote Cambodian village of Anuk Lang for a documentary project last October, they realized that only drone footage could capture the breathtaking beauty they were experiencing.”

First They Killed My Father’s on Kindle Big Deal 3/13-3/31

Woo hoo! It’s already started! FIRST THEY KILLED MY FATHER is now on Amazon Kindle Big Deal running 3/13 to 3/31 for $2.99. (It was $9.99 before!)

First They Killed My Father on ‘Kindle Big Deal’

Hi all.  I just received news from my publisher at HarperCollins that FIRST THEY KILLED MY FATHER was selected for the Kindle Big Deal running 3/14 to 3/31 for $2.99.

Since I still read mostly paper-books, I had to research what this means and found this old article about it. http://gigaom.com/2011/07/20/419-amazons-big-deals-puts-900-kindle-books-on-sale-including-big-6-titles/

Cambodia bans smoking in public, workplaces

Feb. 17, 2014 Some 10,000 Cambodians die from tobacco-related diseases every year or about 30 people a day.

Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge Trials Are a Shocking Failure

Time Magazine. Feb.13, 2014 Cambodia KR Trial “Hearings into an appalling genocide have seen just five indictments and only one conviction in eight years at a cost of some $200 million.”

Learning to Forget in Cambodia

“This attitude is also supported by the Buddhist notion of individual helplessness (95 percent of Cambodians are Theravada Buddhists) and a belief in the supernatural where it is thought not unwise to literally disturb the sleep of the ghosts of the past.” Franz-Stefan Gady  February 17, 2014