political atrocities

Loung Ung recounts her struggles to adapt to life in America after arriving in 1980 as a ten-year-old Cambodian refugee.

Examines the strategies and results of organized reactions to mass violence and genocide, discussing the war-crime prosecutions in Nuremberg and Bosnia; truth commissions in South Africa, Argentina, and East Germany; and reparations in America, also addressing the issues of vengeance, forgiveness, and facing history.

The author maintains that a greater threat of genocide originates from smaller groups of powerful leaders and focuses on three types of mass killings in the twentieth century: Communist killings, ethnic genocides, and counter-guerrilla campaigns.

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.

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.

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.

Collection of poetry by poets all over the world who have endured conditions of social and historical extremity during the twentieth century.

Examines what author Paul Preston terms "the Spanish Holocaust", charting twentieth-century Spain under General Franco in which hundreds of thousands of innocent men, women, and children were systematically wiped out.

Norma, a radio host for an unnamed South American country ravaged by civil war, reads the names of missing persons to her listeners, and finds her life altered when a boy appears from the jungles with information on Norma's long missing husband.