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This is the story of a young girl's memories of life during the fall of Phnom Penh, and the subsequent takeover of Cambodia by the Khmer Rouge with the sadistic Pol Pot as its head. Loung Ung, at 5 years old was forced to travel with her family to the country to work as laborers, mostly in fields to produce food that was then sold to China for guns, while the workers slowly starved to death. In this memoirs she presents her daily life as they try to survive the awful conditions. 25% of Cambodia'
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True life story of one young girl's experiences and survival in Cambodia during the time of Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge.
Amazing that someone whose childhood was affected by murder, starvation, and disease managed to not only survive, but also re-unite with those of her family who were left, and move on with her life.
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Amazing that someone whose childhood was affected by murder, starvation, and disease managed to not only survive, but also re-unite with those of her family who were left, and move on with her life.
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This book is amazing and a must read if you are traveling to Cambodia or if you haven't heard of the genocide by the Khmer Rouge. Told from the point of a 5-year-old child, Loung Ung and how she survived under a communist regime that killed over 2 million of the Cambodian people. I highly recommend this book.
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Heartbreaking story of a family that lived during the Cambodian Genocide. It’s unthinkable the damage to countless families and an entire generation of Cambodians done by a horrible regime.
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