Children of Cambodia's Killing Fields

by Pran, Dith; Kiernan, Ben; Depaul, Kim

• ISBN13: 9780300068399
• ISBN10: 0300068395
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-05-01
• Publisher: Yale Univ Pr

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	ix	(2)
DITH PRAN
Introduction: A World Turned Upside Down	xi
BEN KIERNAN
Songs My Enemies Taught Me	1	(6)
SOPHILINE CHEAM SHAPIRO
A Letter to My Mother	7	(4)
CHATH PIERSATH
Worms from Our Skin	11	(8)
TEEDA BUTT MAM
One Spoon of Rice	19	(8)
YOUKIMNY CHAN
Memoir of a Child's Nightmare	27	(8)
SOPHEAP K. HANG
New Year's Surprise	35	(8)
SREYTOUCH SVAY-RYSER
The Dark Years of My Life	43	(8)
SAVUTH PENN
Jail Without Walls	51	(6)
CHARLES OK
Witnessing the Horror	57	(10)
MOLY LY
The Unfortunate Cambodia	67	(6)
SAROM PRAK
Living in the Darkness	73	(10)
ROEUN SAM
A Four-Year-Old's View of the Khmer Rouge	83	(6)
SARAH P. TUN
The Tragedy of My Homeland	89	(4)
NAVY DY
Hurt, Pain, and Suffering	93	(8)
RATHA DUONG
The Darkness of My Experience	101	(4)
KHUON KIV
Survival in Spite of Fear	105	(6)
GEN L. LEE
Pol Pot	111	(4)
SUSIE HEM
A Bitter Life	115	(8)
OUK VILLA
The Unplanned Journey	123	(6)
HONG A. CHORK
Motherland	129	(6)
VIBOLRETH BOU
My Mother's Courage	135	(8)
ARN YAN
Escaping the Horror	143	(4)
RITH MEAN
When the Owl Cries	147	(8)
CHANRITHY HIM
The End of Childhood	155	(6)
SEATH K. TENG
My Sadness	161	(6)
DARITH KEO
Life in Communism	167	(4)
DAVE LONH
The Nightmare	171	(8)
HAMSON C. TAING
Imprinting Compassion	179	(6)
SOPHEA MOUTH
The Tonle Sap Lake Massacre	185	(10)
RONNIE YIMSUT
Notes to the Introduction	195	(2)
Glossary	197