LEADER 03980nam 2200685Ia 450 001 9910828846703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9786611722937 010 $a1-281-72293-6 010 $a0-300-13383-9 010 $a0-585-34760-3 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300133837 035 $a(CKB)111004366653048 035 $a(EBL)3420273 035 $a(OCoLC)923591351 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000291411 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11213765 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000291411 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10267884 035 $a(PQKB)10623968 035 $a(DE-B1597)485515 035 $a(OCoLC)952733647 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300133837 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3420273 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10190730 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3420273 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111004366653048 100 $a19961115d1997 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnnu---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aChildren of Cambodia's killing fields $ememoirs by survivors /$fcompiled by Dith Pran ; introduction by Ben Kiernan ; edited by Kim DePaul 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew Haven [Conn.] $cYale University Press$dc1997 215 $a1 online resource (221 p.) 225 1 $aYale Southeast Asia studies monograph series 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-300-06839-5 311 0 $a0-300-07873-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 195). 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tCompiler's Note --$tIntroduction: A World Turned Upside Down --$tSongs My Enemies Taught Me --$tA Letter to My Mother --$tWorms from Our Skin --$tOne Spoon of Rice --$tMemoir of a Child's Nightmare --$tNew Year's Surprise --$tThe Dark Years of My Life --$tJail Without Walls --$tWitnessing the Horror --$tThe Unfortunate Cambodia --$tLiving in the Darkness --$tA Four-Year-Old's View of the Khmer Rouge --$tThe Tragedy of My Homeland --$tHurt, Pain, and Suffering --$tThe Darkness of My Experience --$tSurvival in Spite of Fear --$tPol Pot --$tA Bitter Life --$tThe Unplanned Journey --$tMotherland --$tMy Mother's Courage --$tEscaping the Horror --$tWhen the Owl Cries --$tThe End of Childhood --$tMy Sadness --$tLife in Communism --$tThe Nightmare --$tThe Tonle Sap Lake Massacre --$tNotes to the Introduction --$tGlossary 330 $aThis extraordinary book contains eyewitness accounts of life in Cambodia during Pol Pot's genocidal Khmer Rouge regime from 1975 to 1979, accounts written by survivors who were children at the time. The book has been put together by Dith Pran, whose own experiences in Cambodia were so graphically portrayed in the film The Killing Fields.The testimonies related here bear poignant witness to the slaughter the Khmer Rouge inflicted on the Cambodian people. The contributors-most of them now in the United States and pictured in photographs that accompany their stories-report on life in Democratic Kampuchea as seen through children's eyes. They speak of their bewilderment and pain as Khmer Rouge cadres tore their families apart, subjected them to harsh brainwashing, drove them from their homes to work in forced-labor camps, and executed captives in front of them. Their stories tell of suffering and the loss of innocence, the struggle to survive against all odds, and the ultimate triumph of the human spirit. 410 0$aMonograph series (Yale University. Southeast Asia Studies) 606 $aPolitical atrocities$zCambodia 606 $aChildren$zCambodia$vBiography 607 $aCambodia$xHistory$y1975-1979 615 0$aPolitical atrocities 615 0$aChildren 676 $a959.604/2 701 $aDith Pran$f1942-2008.$01604170 701 $aDePaul$b Kim$01604171 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910828846703321 996 $aChildren of Cambodia's killing fields$93928894 997 $aUNINA