First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers

Author: Loung Ung

Soon to be a major film, co-written and directed by Angelina Jolie Pitt. Until the age of five, Loung Ung lived in Phnom Penh, one of seven children of a high-ranking government official. She was a precocious child who loved the open city markets, fried crickets, chicken fights and being cheeky to her parents.When Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge army stormed into Phnom Penh in Apr….Read More

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