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Author : Kalyanee E. Mam
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book An Oral History of Family Life Under the Khmer Rouge written by Kalyanee E. Mam and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Chileng Pa
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476628289
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Escaping the Khmer Rouge written by Chileng Pa and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-02-10 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Khmer Rouge ruled Cambodia for three years, eight months and twenty days. After overthrowing Lon Nol in April 1975 and establishing a so-called Democratic Kampuchea, the Communist-sponsored government was responsible for the deaths of as many as two million people, almost one-third of the country's population. Here, Chileng Pa vividly recalls life under the Cambodian Communists. Attempting to conceal his identity as a policeman for the previous government, Chileng changed his name and moved his family to the village of Prayap, near the Vietnamese border. In April of 1977, after two years of starvation and cruelty at the hands of the Khmer Rouge, Chileng was forced to watch as Communist guerillas brutally murdered his wife and two-year-old son. With nothing left for him in Prayap Chileng fled to Vietnam, but eventually returned to Cambodia as part of a Vietnamese invasion force that would end the bloody reign of the Khmer regime. In 1981 Chileng and his new family found their way to America. His "simple strand of remembrance" serves to honor all those who died at the hands of the Khmer Rouge.
Author : Joan D. Criddle
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 9780385266284
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (662 download)
Download or read book To Destroy You is No Loss written by Joan D. Criddle and published by Anchor. This book was released on 1987 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The daughter of a former Cambodian government official recounts the family's four years of forced labor and persecution at the hands of the Khmer Rouge
Author : Vatey Seng
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 059534383X
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (953 download)
Download or read book The Price We Paid written by Vatey Seng and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: April 17, 1975--the Communist Khmer Rouge Regime seized power and forced Cambodians of all ages into slavery, turning their lives upside down. This resulted in the death of more than 1.5 million Cambodians out of roughly 8 million population due to forced labor, starvation, and execution. Author Vatey Seng was only thirteen years old when the Khmer Rouge took control. The Price We Paid is her vivid and haunting memoir of the atrocities of the regime. Vatey recounts everything from the initial occupation through the indoctrination and application of the Khmer Rouge's ways of life. Every aspect of her family's life was impacted as the new government achieved its goals through child labor, slavery, and genocide. Vatey's memories provide a glimpse into what the people of Cambodia endured during this dark regime--a regime that totally devastated her beloved country. The Price We Paid also follows the aftermath of the regime. Vatey and her family fled the country and stayed in refugee camps in Thailand, the processing center in the Philippines, and then immigrated to America in 1982. Twenty-five years later, she has gathered the courage and strength to finally tell her story--a story shared by countless Cambodian survivors who still bear the psychological scars of their traumatic experiences. This is the price they paid for the Khmer Rouge revolution.
Author : Chris Berg
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319965832
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (199 download)
Download or read book The Classical Liberal Case for Privacy in a World of Surveillance and Technological Change written by Chris Berg and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-09-21 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How should a free society protect privacy? Dramatic changes in national security law and surveillance, as well as technological changes from social media to smart cities mean that our ideas about privacy and its protection are being challenged like never before. In this interdisciplinary book, Chris Berg explores what classical liberal approaches to privacy can bring to current debates about surveillance, encryption and new financial technologies. Ultimately, he argues that the principles of classical liberalism – the rule of law, individual rights, property and entrepreneurial evolution – can help extend as well as critique contemporary philosophical theories of privacy.
Author : Loung Ung
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062036548
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (62 download)
Download or read book First They Killed My Father written by Loung Ung and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-10-12 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A riveting memoir. . . an important, moving work that those who have suffered cannot afford to forget and those who have been spared cannot afford to ignore.” — San Francisco Chronicle From a childhood survivor of the Cambodian genocide under the regime of Pol Pot, this is a riveting narrative of war crimes and desperate actions, the unnerving strength of a small girl and her family, and their triumph of spirit. One of seven children of a high-ranking government official, Loung Ung lived a privileged life in the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh until the age of five. Then, in April 1975, Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge army stormed into the city, forcing Ung's family to flee and, eventually, to disperse. Loung was trained as a child soldier in a work camp for orphans, her siblings were sent to labor camps, and those who survived the horrors would not be reunited until the Khmer Rouge was destroyed. Harrowing yet hopeful, Loung's powerful story is an unforgettable account of a family shaken and shattered, yet miraculously sustained by courage and love in the face of unspeakable brutality.
Author : Sideth Niev
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (859 download)
Download or read book Go West! written by Sideth Niev and published by . This book was released on 2022-06-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Go West, Sideth recounts his family's stories for his young sons in this heart-wrenching yet inspiring memoir of what life was like during the darkest days in Cambodia. His mother's dream to go West lived on with his family. Five years later, they escaped Cambodia to Thailand refugee camps and eventually resettled in the United States in 1981.
Author : Eric D. Weitz
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691165874
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)
Download or read book A Century of Genocide written by Eric D. Weitz and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-27 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why did the twentieth century witness unprecedented organized genocide? Can we learn why genocide is perpetrated by comparing different cases of genocide? Is the Holocaust unique, or does it share causes and features with other cases of state-sponsored mass murder? Can genocide be prevented? Blending gripping narrative with trenchant analysis, Eric Weitz investigates four of the twentieth century's major eruptions of genocide: the Soviet Union under Stalin, Nazi Germany, Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, and the former Yugoslavia. Drawing on historical sources as well as trial records, memoirs, novels, and poems, Weitz explains the prevalence of genocide in the twentieth century--and shows how and why it became so systematic and deadly. Weitz depicts the searing brutality of each genocide and traces its origins back to those most powerful categories of the modern world: race and nation. He demonstrates how, in each of the cases, a strong state pursuing utopia promoted a particular mix of extreme national and racial ideologies. In moments of intense crisis, these states targeted certain national and racial groups, believing that only the annihilation of these "enemies" would enable the dominant group to flourish. And in each instance, large segments of the population were enticed to join in the often ritualistic actions that destroyed their neighbors. This book offers some of the most absorbing accounts ever written of the population purges forever associated with the names Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot, and Milosevic. A controversial and richly textured comparison of these four modern cases, it identifies the social and political forces that produce genocide.
Author : James A. Tyner
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 0815654227
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (156 download)
Download or read book From Rice Fields to Killing Fields written by James A. Tyner and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-13 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1975 and 1979, the Communist Party of Kampuchea fundamentally transformed the social, economic, political, and natural landscape of Cambodia. During this time, as many as two million Cambodians died from exposure, disease, and starvation, or were executed at the hands of the Party. The dominant interpretation of Cambodian history during this period presents the CPK as a totalitarian, communist, and autarkic regime seeking to reorganize Cambodian society around a primitive, agrarian political economy. From Rice Fields to Killing Fields challenges previous interpretations and provides a documentary-based Marxist interpretation of the political economy of Democratic Kampuchea. Tyner argues that Cambodia’s mass violence was the consequence not of the deranged attitudes and paranoia of a few tyrannical leaders but that the violence was structural, the direct result of a series of political and economic reforms that were designed to accumulate capital rapidly: the dispossession of hundreds of thousands of people through forced evacuations, the imposition of starvation wages, the promotion of import-substitution policies, and the intensification of agricultural production through forced labor. Moving beyond the Cambodian genocide, Tyner maintains that it is a mistake to view Democratic Kampuchea in isolation, as an aberration or something unique. Rather, the policies and practices initiated by the Khmer Rouge must be seen in a larger, historical-geographical context.
Author : Monica Sok
Publisher : Copper Canyon Press
ISBN 13 : 1619322161
Total Pages : 61 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (193 download)
Download or read book A Nail the Evening Hangs On written by Monica Sok and published by Copper Canyon Press. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her debut collection, Monica Sok uses poetry to reshape a family’s memory about the Khmer Rouge regime—memory that is both real and imagined—according to a child of refugees. Driven by myth-making and fables, the poems examine the inheritance of the genocide and the profound struggles of searing grief and PTSD. Though the landscape of Cambodia is always present, it is the liminal space, the in-betweenness of diaspora, in which younger generations must reconcile their history and create new rituals. A Nail the Evening Hangs On seeks to reclaim the Cambodian narrative with tenderness and an imagination that moves towards wholeness and possibility.
Author : Audrey U. Kim
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252071010
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Not Just Victims written by Audrey U. Kim and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not Just Victims contains twelve oral histories based on conversations with Cambodian community leaders in eight American cities -- Long Beach, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., Seattle, Portland, Tacoma, and the Massachusetts towns of Fall River and Lowell. Unlike the dozens of autobiographies published by Cambodians that focus largely on their victimization, these narratives describe how Cambodian refugees have adapted to life in the United States. Sucheng Chan's extensive introduction provides a historical framework; she discusses the civil war (1970-75), the bloody Khmer Rouge revolution (1975-79), the border war during the Vietnamese occupation of Cambodia (1979-89), and the additional travails faced by those who escaped to holding camps in Thailand. The book also includes an essay on oral history and a substantial bibliography.
Author : Alexander Laban Hinton
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520937945
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Why Did They Kill? written by Alexander Laban Hinton and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2004-12-06 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of all the horrors human beings perpetrate, genocide stands near the top of the list. Its toll is staggering: well over 100 million dead worldwide. Why Did They Kill? is one of the first anthropological attempts to analyze the origins of genocide. In it, Alexander Hinton focuses on the devastation that took place in Cambodia from April 1975 to January 1979 under the Khmer Rouge in order to explore why mass murder happens and what motivates perpetrators to kill. Basing his analysis on years of investigative work in Cambodia, Hinton finds parallels between the Khmer Rouge and the Nazi regimes. Policies in Cambodia resulted in the deaths of over 1.7 million of that country's 8 million inhabitants—almost a quarter of the population--who perished from starvation, overwork, illness, malnutrition, and execution. Hinton considers this violence in light of a number of dynamics, including the ways in which difference is manufactured, how identity and meaning are constructed, and how emotionally resonant forms of cultural knowledge are incorporated into genocidal ideologies.
Author : Joan D. Criddle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Bamboo & Butterflies written by Joan D. Criddle and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BAMBOO & BUTTERFLIES: From Refugee to Citizen offers a fresh glimpse into our culture, its customs and holidays, our confusing laws and almost impossible English grammar, and our fetish for being on time. This sequel to the author's award-winning TO DESTROY YOU IS NO LOSS: The Odyssey of a Cambodian Family follows family members as they pick up the shards of their shattered lives in America after fleeing four years of slavery under the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia.
Author : Alexandra Stein
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317194500
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)
Download or read book Terror, Love and Brainwashing written by Alexandra Stein and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-11-03 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by a cult survivor and renowned expert on cults and totalitarianism, Terror, Love and Brainwashing draws on the author’s 25 years of study and research to explain how almost anyone, given the right set of circumstances, can be radically manipulated to engage in otherwise incomprehensible and often dangerous acts. Illustrated with compelling stories from a range of cults and totalitarian systems, from religious to political to commercial, the book defines and analyses the common and identifiable traits that underlie almost all these groups. It focuses on how charismatic, authoritarian leaders control their followers’ attachment relationships via manipulative social structures and ideologies so that, emotionally and cognitively isolated, they become unable to act in their own survival interests. Using the evolutionary theory of attachment to demonstrate the psychological impact of these environments, and incorporating the latest neuroscientific findings, Stein illustrates how the combined dynamic of terror and ‘love’ works to break down people’s ability to think and behave rationally. From small local cults to global players like ISIS and North Korea, the impact of these movements is widespread and growing. This important book offers clarity and a unique perspective on the dynamics of these systems of control, and concludes with guidance to foster greater awareness and prevention. It will be essential reading for mental health professionals in the field, as well as policy makers, legal professionals, cult survivors, and their families, as well as anyone with an interest in these disturbing groups. Students of social and developmental psychology will also find it fascinating.
Author : Seng Ty
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781492286738
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (867 download)
Download or read book The Years of Zero written by Seng Ty and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Years of Zero-Coming of Age Under the Khmer Rouge is a survivor's account of the Cambodian genocide carried out by Pol Pot's sadistic and terrifying Khmer Rouge regime in the late 1970s. It follows the author, Seng Ty, from the age of seven as he is plucked from his comfortable, middle-class home in a Phnom Penh suburb, marched along a blistering, black strip of highway into the jungle, and thrust headlong into the unspeakable barbarities of an agricultural labor camp. Seng's mother was worked to death while his siblings succumbed to starvation. His oldest brother was brought back from France and tortured in the secret prison of Tuol Sleng. His family's only survivor and a mere child, Seng was forced to fend for himself, navigating the brainwashing campaigns and random depravities of the Khmer Rouge, determined to survive so he could bear witness to what happened in the camp. The Years of Zero guides the reader through the author's long, desperate periods of harrowing darkness, each chapter a painting of cruelty, caprice, and courage. It follows Seng as he sneaks mice and other living food from the rice paddies where he labors, knowing that the penalty for such defiance is death. It tracks him as he tries to escape into the jungle, only to be dragged back to his camp and severely beaten. Through it all, Seng finds a way to remain whole both in body and in mind. He rallies past torture, betrayal, disease and despair, refusing at every juncture to surrender to the murderers who have stolen everything he had. As The Years of Zero concludes, the reader will have lived what Seng lived, risked what he risked, endured what he endured, and finally celebrate with him his unlikeliest of triumphs.
Author : Andrew Sabaratnam
Publisher : Graceworks
ISBN 13 : 9811889481
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (118 download)
Download or read book All Things to All People written by Andrew Sabaratnam and published by Graceworks. This book was released on 2023-12-01 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the past two decades, we have witnessed an unprecedented degree of interdependence among the various economies of the world. The most visible and significant impact of globalisation is an accelerated flow of migrants. The church now finds herself in the midst of a significant shift in global migration patterns. Gospel opportunities abound in this situation. We are being challenged to think anew about how we should steward the gospel in the era of globalisation and immigration. This book will help you develop your cultural intelligence so that you can relate, respect, express care, work, and witness effectively across cultures.
Author : Katya Cengel
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1640120785
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Exiled written by Katya Cengel and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2018-09-01 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: San Tran Croucher’s earliest memories are of fleeing ethnic attacks in her Vietnamese village, only to be later tortured in Cambodia by the Khmer Rouge. Katya Cengel met San when San was seventy-five years old and living in California, having miraculously survived the Cambodian genocide with her three daughters, Sithy, Sithea, and Jennifer. But San’s family’s troubles didn’t end after their resettlement in California. As a teenager under the Khmer Rouge, San’s daughter Sithy had been the family’s savior, the strong one who learned how to steal food to keep them alive. In the United States, Sithy’s survival skills were best suited for a life of crime, and she was eventually jailed for drug possession. U.S. immigration law enforces deportation of any immigrant or refugee who is found guilty of certain illegal activities, and San has hired a lawyer to fight Sithy’s deportation case. Only time will tell if they are successful. In Exiled Cengel follows the stories of four Cambodian families, including San’s, as they confront criminal deportation forty years after their resettlement in the United States. Weaving together these stories into a single narrative, Cengel finds that violence comes in many forms and that trauma is passed down through generations. With no easy answers, Cengel reveals a cycle of violence, followed by safety, and then loss.
