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 First they Killed my Father - Loung Ung
 First they Killed my Father - Loung Ung ... of war crimes and desperate actions, the unnerving strength of a small girl and her family, and their triumph of spirit. Until the age of five, Loung Ung lived in Phnom Penh, one of seven children of a high-ranking government official. While her mother worried that she was a troublemaker, her beloved father knew Loung was a clever girl. When Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge army stormed into Phnom Penh in April 1975, Ung's family fled their home and moved from village to village to hide their identity, their education and their former life of privilege. Eventually, the family dispersed in order to survive. Because Loung was resilient and determined, she was trained as a child soldier in a work camp for orphans, while her other brothers and sisters were sent to labour camps.Newest Review: ... step in their genocidal cleansing campaign which was to cause unbelievable loss of life over the next four years. What ... more ... begins is a brutal account of the family’s next four years living and working in the rice fields, contributing to the Khmer Rouge’s unachievable targets for rice production to feed its people, while simultaneously removing people whom it did not consider to be “old” people.
Loung was only five years old, and her Pa knew that should the Khmer Rouge ever find out he had not been living the peasant life he had claimed to be, that he would be removed. Her Ma, being Chinese was also under threat, as indeed were the children, b...more |
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First they Killed my Father - Loung Ung: Can we go home soon, Pa? (1017 words)
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“First they killed my Father” by Loung Ung is a shocking autobiographical insight into the sufferings of the Cambodian People during the Khmer Rouge days between 1975 and 1979; as seen through the eyes of one five year old girl. The Khmer Rouge took over the ruling of Cambodia on April 17, 1975. They immediately began to inflict their torturous and communist regime on its own people. Believing that cities were intrinsically capitalist, they drove the people back to the land, the vision being agricultural success and building socialism in the fields. Loung Ung was born to a Chinese Mother and a Cambodian Father who was also highly ranked in the Lon ... Read the complete review
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