Children of Cambodia's Killing Fields : Memoirs by Survivors
by Dith Pran; Edited by Kim DePaul; Introduction by Ben KiernanFormat: Trade Paper
Pub. Date: 1999-04-10
Publisher(s): Yale University Press
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Summary
This extraordinary book contains eyewitness accounts of life in Cambodia during Pol Pot's genocidal Khmer Rouge regime from 1975 to 1979, accounts written by survivors who were children at the time. The memoirs were gathered by Dith Pran, whose own experiences in Cambodia were so graphically portrayed in the film The Killing Fields.
Table of Contents
| Compiler's Note | |
| Introduction: A World Turned Upside Down | |
| Songs My Enemies Taught Me | p. 1 |
| A Letter to My Mother | p. 7 |
| Worms from Our Skin | p. 11 |
| One Spoon of Rice | p. 19 |
| Memoir of a Child's Nightmare | p. 27 |
| New Year's Surprise | p. 35 |
| The Dark Years of My Life | p. 43 |
| Jail Without Walls | p. 51 |
| Witnessing the Horror | p. 57 |
| The Unfortunate Cambodia | p. 67 |
| Living in the Darkness | p. 73 |
| A Four-Year-Old's View of the Khmer Rouge | p. 83 |
| The Tragedy of My Homeland | p. 89 |
| Hurt, Pain, and Suffering | p. 93 |
| The Darkness of My Experience | p. 101 |
| Survival in Spite of Fear | p. 105 |
| Pol Pot | p. 111 |
| A Bitter Life | p. 115 |
| The Unplanned Journey | p. 123 |
| Motherland | p. 129 |
| My Mother's Courage | p. 135 |
| Escaping the Horror | p. 143 |
| When the Owl Cries | p. 147 |
| The End of Childhood | p. 155 |
| My Sadness | p. 161 |
| Life in Communism | p. 167 |
| The Nightmare | p. 171 |
| Imprinting Compassion | p. 179 |
| The Tonle Sap Lake Massacre | p. 185 |
| Notes to the Introduction | p. 195 |
| Glossary | p. 197 |
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