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Behind the killing fields

a Khmer Rouge leader and one of his victims
2010
Huon Chon is the top Khmer Rouge leader still living. Interviews with him follow his journey as a dedicated freedom fighter who became a killer accused of crimes against humanity. Chea was Pol Pot's top lieutenant and is now in prison, facing prosecution in a United Nations-Cambodian tribunal for his actions during the Khmer Rouge rule, when more than two million Cambodians died in the Killing Fields.

Cambodia calling

a memoir from the frontlines of humanitarian aid
2008
Richard Heinzl recounts the experiences he had while spending a year in Cambodia offering medical help to the country's poorest residents and earning his credentials in order to set up a Canadian chapter of Doctors Without Borders.

When broken glass floats

growing up under the Khmer Rouge : a memoir
2000
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.

First they killed my father

a daughter of Cambodia remembers
2001
Loung Ung, one of seven children of a high-ranking government official in Phnom Penh, tells of her experiences after her family was forced to flee from Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge army, discussing her training as a child soldier in a work camp for orphans, and telling of how her surviving siblings were eventually reunited.

Cambodia

2003
Describes the landscape, historical struggles, and modern culture of Cambodia, and provides fast facts, a chronology, and an annotated further reading list.

The clay marble

1991
In the late 1970s twelve-year-old Dara joins a refugee camp in war-torn Cambodia and becomes separated from her family.

The clay marble

1992
In the late 1970s twelve-year-old Dara joins a refugee camp in war-torn Cambodia and becomes separated from her family.

Cambodia

1999
An overview of the history, geography, economy, government, people, and culture of Cambodia.

Little brother

1992
In Cambodia after the Vietnamese War, Vithy learns to overcome social upheaval, a hostile jungle, and his own inability to trust, in order to rescue his older brother.

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