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April 12, 2012
Remnants of war still undermining mental health
Phnom Penh Post, April 10, 2012
A dearth of trained mental health workers, a history of conflict and a lack of coordination has resulted in a weak and fragmented mental th system, while survivors of trauma continue to seek explanations for the horrors they experienced or witnessed. Read Full Article
April 9, 2012
WCPN interview: Loung Ung: Writer, Survivor and Activist
WCPN: 10-year-old Loung Ung survived the Killing Fields of Cambodia. She fled the genocide that killed nearly two million people. But more than 20 of her relatives died including her parents and two siblings. We'll meet with Ung – now grown up and living in Northeast Ohio. Join us for a conversation on the extraordinary courage of the human spirit. Listen to Interview, Originally aired 10/3/11
April 5, 2012
Kirkus Review of LULU IN THE SKY
The third memoir in a trilogy about processing and moving past the trauma of surviving the Cambodian genocide.. Read full review
April 3, 2012
An excerpt from Loung Ung – Lulu in the Sky
Prologue: Amah Chiem La Aw (Grandmother Who Possessed Good Blood)
Kompong Speu, Cambodia, January 2000
"Daughter," my grandmother called me, her hand reaching out. "Did you bring me a grandchild?"Read More Excerpt
April 2, 2012
Dan Austin’s tour of Cleveland to raise ‘bikes’ for children in Cambodia…
CLEVELAND – Dan Austin, the man Outside Magazine named as one of “Ten Icons Changing the World,” is coming to Cleveland April 11-14.
Austin is the co-founder of the 88bikes Foundation which donates bicycles to needy children all over the world.
In 2007, Austin and his brother Jared were on a cycling tour of Cambodia. At the end of their tour, they decided to donate their bikes to a local orphanage which housed 88 children. Donating their two bikes meant 86 children would not be getting bikes. Read more:
He’ll be speaking at Market Garden Brewery, 1947 W. 25th St., Cleveland, 6 p.m.
on April 11. (I’ll be there! hope to see some friends there too!)
Dan Austin's tour of Cleveland to raise 'bikes' for children in Cambodia…
CLEVELAND – Dan Austin, the man Outside Magazine named as one of "Ten Icons Changing the World," is coming to Cleveland April 11-14.
Austin is the co-founder of the 88bikes Foundation which donates bicycles to needy children all over the world.
In 2007, Austin and his brother Jared were on a cycling tour of Cambodia. At the end of their tour, they decided to donate their bikes to a local orphanage which housed 88 children. Donating their two bikes meant 86 children would not be getting bikes. Read more:
He'll be speaking at Market Garden Brewery, 1947 W. 25th St., Cleveland, 6 p.m.
on April 11. (I'll be there! hope to see some friends there too!)
March 26, 2012
10×10 Book Club launches with Loung Ung’s “First They Killed My Father”
March 21, 2012
To inaugurate the 10×10 Book Club, we bring you the work of bestselling writer and international activist Loung Ung. Her debut memoir, First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers, is the perfect choice to kick things off! REad More about 10×10 book club!
10×10 Book Club launches with Loung Ung's "First They Killed My Father"
March 21, 2012
To inaugurate the 10×10 Book Club, we bring you the work of bestselling writer and international activist Loung Ung. Her debut memoir, First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers, is the perfect choice to kick things off! REad More about 10×10 book club!
March 13, 2012
Reflections on Cambodia
March 12, 2o12 What the Khmer Rouge killing fields tell us about leftist utopianism.
By Douglas B. Levene
In April of 1970, I, along with thousands of other college students, went on strike. We were protesting the bombing of Cambodia. It was a heady time, untroubled by any actual knowledge of Cambodia. Not that anyone knew very much about Cambodia then. Read Full Article.
February 23, 2012
Reporter recalls rare trip to Pol Pot's Cambodia
AFP, February 22, 2012
When the Khmer Rouge invited a pair of American journalists to Cambodia in the late 1970s for a rare glimpse of the revolution, they found empty streets and schools in a city with no laughter.
"There was nobody there. It was like walking into the Twilight Zone," recalled one-time Washington Post correspondent Elizabeth Becker. Read Full Story
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