cambodia

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Murder of a gentle land

the untold story of a Communist genocide in Cambodia
1977

The rent collector

a novel
2012
Sang Ly struggles to survive by picking through garbage in Cambodia's largest municipal dump. Under threat of eviction by an embittered old drunk who is charged with collecting rents from the poor of Stung Meanchey, Sang Ly embarks on a desperate journey to save her ailing son from a life of ignorance and poverty.

Lucky child

a daughter of Cambodia reunites with the sister she left behind
2006
Loung Ung recounts her struggles to adapt to life in America after arriving in 1980 as a ten-year-old Cambodian refugee.

Brother number one

a political biography of Pol Pot
1999

When broken glass floats

growing up under the Khmer Rouge : a memoir
2001
A memoir in which the author discusses her experiences as a child living in Cambodia under the brutal Khmer Rouge, and tells of the hardships her family experienced until being brought to the United States by an uncle who was living in Oregon.

Music through the dark

a tale of survival in Cambodia
2000
Daran Kravanh recounts the experiences he had while living in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge.

Genocide and democracy in Cambodia

the Khmer Rouge, the United Nations, and the international community
1993

Getting away with genocide?

elusive justice and the Khmer Rouge Tribunal
2004
Examines the genocide and human rights violations committed by the Khmer Rouge during the 1970s, why it took eighteen years for the UN to recognize the crimes, and the history of trying to bring the Khmer Rouge to justice in Cambodia.

The Pol Pot regime

race, power, and genocide in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, 1975-79
1996
Study of the Khmer Rouge revolution in Cambodia under the leadership of Pol Pot, discussing the virtual kidnapping of the entire nation of Cambodia, and drawing upon archives and interviews with survivors inside and outside the country to document the atrocities that took place between 1975 and 1979 resulting in the deaths of over one million Cambodians.

A Cambodian odyssey

1989
Haing Ngor's memoir of life under the communist Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia.

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