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1975-1979

To destroy you is no loss

the odyssey of a Cambodian family
1987

The gate

2003
Francois Bizot recounts the experiences he had during his arrest and captivity in Cambodia in 1971.

The stone goddess

2005
After the Communists take over Cambodia and her family is torn from their city life, twelve-year-old Nakri and her older sister attempt to maintain their hope as well as their classical dancing skills in the midst of their struggle to survive.

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.

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.

Genocide and resistance in Southeast Asia

documentation, denial & justice in Cambodia & East Timor
2008
Examines the violent consequences of Communist revolution in Cambodia in the late 1970s and the occupation of East Timor by Indonesian forces from 1975-1999, chronicling indigenous resistance to genocide and extermination; efforts at cover-ups, international interventions, and UN conflict resolution; and the role of U.S. policymakers in both cases.

After the killing fields

lessons from the Cambodian genocide
2006
Chronicles thirty years of conflict in Cambodia, describing how the Khmer Rouge's crimes against humanity have impacted the region and its people.

Voices from S-21

terror and history in Pol Pot's secret prison
1999
A study of S-21, a secret facility in Phnom Penh where enemies of the Khmer Rouge regime were interrogated, tortured, imprisoned, and executed for alleged counterrevolutionary crimes.

First they killed my father

a daughter of Cambodia remembers
2000
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.

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