Download or read book The Elimination written by Rithy Panh and published by Other Press, LLC. This book was released on 2013-02-12 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the internationally acclaimed director of S-21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine, a survivor’s autobiography that confronts the evils of the Khmer Rouge dictatorship. Rithy Panh was only thirteen years old when the Khmer Rouge expelled his family from Phnom Penh in 1975. In the months and years that followed, his entire family was executed, starved, or worked to death. Thirty years later, after having become a respected filmmaker, Rithy Panh decides to question one of the men principally responsible for the genocide, Comrade Duch, who’s neither an ordinary person nor a demon—he’s an educated organizer, a slaughterer who talks, forgets, lies, explains, and works on his legacy. This confrontation unfolds into an exceptional narrative of human history and an examination of the nature of evil. The Elimination stands among the essential works that document the immense tragedies of the twentieth century, with Primo Levi’s If This Is a Man and Elie Wiesel’s Night.
Download or read book The Elimination written by Rithy Panh and published by Other Press, LLC. This book was released on 2013-02-12 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the internationally acclaimed director of S-21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine, a survivor’s autobiography that confronts the evils of the Khmer Rouge dictatorship. Rithy Panh was only thirteen years old when the Khmer Rouge expelled his family from Phnom Penh in 1975. In the months and years that followed, his entire family was executed, starved, or worked to death. Thirty years later, after having become a respected filmmaker, Rithy Panh decides to question one of the men principally responsible for the genocide, Comrade Duch, who’s neither an ordinary person nor a demon—he’s an educated organizer, a slaughterer who talks, forgets, lies, explains, and works on his legacy. This confrontation unfolds into an exceptional narrative of human history and an examination of the nature of evil. The Elimination stands among the essential works that document the immense tragedies of the twentieth century, with Primo Levi’s If This Is a Man and Elie Wiesel’s Night.
Download or read book Khmers Rouges Survivor written by Tran Lam and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2014-05-28 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: En 1975, du jour au lendemain jai t arrache de ma chre mre cause de la guerre des Khmers rouges. Cette perte de ltre cher ma plonge dans une telle souffrance, un tel vide que je me croyais morte vivante. Ce qui me conservait en vie tait lespoir de revoir pour une dernire fois ma mre, vu qui ne sest jamais ralis. Cela ma pris des annes avant de pouvoir lui dire adieu. Le 17 avril 1975, la punition des habitants de Phnom-Penh fut la fin de cette ville telle que nous lavions connue, par les Khmers rouges, ville que jaurais aim connatre davantage. Cette troupe de jeunes paysans arms jusquaux dents, des garons peine sortis de ladolescence, a rpandu la terreur travers la ville de Phnom-Penh, avec leur air arrogant et prtentieux, tout comme si le monde entier leur appartenait. Vtus de leurs habit, ressemblant des corbeaux, ont fait en sorte que je ne peux voir ces animaux sans aussitt penses ces Khmers rouges qui me terrifient encore. Leur bandeau rouge sang sur le front avait de quoi faire frmir jusquaux os et leurs yeux affichant leur identit de monstre, de tueur, sans aucune piti pour leurs semblables. Leurs camps de concentration furent une des pisodes les plus sanglantes du XXe sicle. Ces jeunes Khmers rouges, forms pour mpriser les gens de la ville comme si nous tions des criminels dangereux. Ils nous dtestaient, nous qui vivions dans les villes, car nous tions la raison de leur pauvret; nous mprisants, nous devions donc tre limins. Ce fut leur tour de nous maltraiter afin de se venger de nous. Ces ides fausses, implantes dans leurs esprits par les chefs Khmers rouges, leur ont permis de nous torturer et de tuer dans aucune piti et remord. Le 17 avril 1975, les Khmers rouges prennent le pouvoir et entrent Phnom-Penh. La capitale fut vide de tous des habitants en moins de 48 heures. Les soldats rouges passrent de porte en porte pour faire sortir les gens en disant : Vous ne partez que pour quelques minutes, inutile dapporter des bagages Ma famille et moi furent dplacs, tout comme la population Khmer, vers la campagne. ce moment le Cambodge sombre dans une guerre terrible o les Khmers rouges ont transform le pays en un vaste camp de concentration, un camp de la mort. Les Khmers rouges ont anantis les lites en les exterminant. Cet immense gnocide a fait disparatre le plus grande partie de la population Cambodgienne. Dans cette foule de dports jtais l, impuissante face cette guerre dans piti. Le quotidien du camp de la mort tait fait de torture, dhumiliation, dexcutions sommaires, de famine provoque et de terreur. Longue liste pour mes quatre annes passes sous le rgime de Pol Pot. Jtais perdue dans cet enfer, dans un face face constant avec la mort; mais mon heure ntait pas au rendez-vous. Mais plusieurs dautres nont pas eu cette chance car des millions de Khmers ont perdus la vie en moins de quatre annes sous ce rgime de Pol Pot qui voulait instaurer le communisme rural et la terreur. Il faut respecter langhar. (sorte de dieu), sinon cest la mort qui nous attendait et elle tait trs proche : notre porte et parfois mme attendait avec impatience. Pol Pot : ce nom seul terrifie le peuple khmer. Il vole le pouvoir de Dieu sur la vie et la mort de millions de khmers. Avoir un langage trop correcte ou porter des lunettes, font de ces personnes des criminelles quil faut liminer. Ces gens instruits, il vaut mieux les liminer : vaut mieux liminer un innocent que de garder un ennemi. Des vrais psychopathes qui prenaient plaisir torturer les gens afin de se donner de limportance ou pour se sentir plus vivants. Les slogans des Khmers rouges taient : Vous devez vous pier les uns les autres Vous garder ne rapporte rien; vous dtruire nest pas une perte! Celui qui proteste est un ennemi. Sil soppose, il devient un cadavre Mieux vaut tuer un innocent que de garder en vie un ennemi Ces slogans constituaient les lignes de conduite des Khmers rouges et cest partir de cela quils nous traitaient.
Download or read book Children of Cambodia s Killing Fields written by Kim DePaul and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Fact Sheet This extraordinary collection of eyewitness accounts by Cambodian survivors of Pol Pot's genocidal Khmer Rouge regime in the 1970s offers searing testimony to an era of brutality, brainwashing, betrayals, starvation, & gruesome executions.
Download or read book Heaven Becomes Hell written by Ly Y and published by Yale Univ Southeast Asia Studies. This book was released on 2000 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Alive in the Killing Fields written by Martha E. Kendall and published by Disney Electronic Content. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alive in the Killing Fields is the real-life memoir of Nawuth Keat, a man who survived the horrors of war-torn Cambodia. He has now broken a longtime silence in the hope that telling the truth about what happened to his people and his country will spare future generations from similar tragedy. In this captivating memoir, a young Nawuth defies the odds and survives the invasion of his homeland by the Khmer Rouge. Under the brutal reign of the dictator Pol Pot, he loses his parents, young sister, and other members of his family. After his hometown of Salatrave was overrun, Nawuth and his remaining relatives are eventually captured and enslaved by Khmer Rouge fighters. They endure physical abuse, hunger, and inhumane living conditions. But through it all, their sense of family holds them together, giving them the strength to persevere through a time when any assertion of identity is punishable by death. Nawuth’s story of survival and escape from the Killing Fields of Cambodia is also a message of hope; an inspiration to children whose worlds have been darkened by hardship and separation from loved ones. This story provides a timeless lesson in the value of human dignity and freedom for readers of all ages.
Download or read book Beyond the Killing Fields written by Usha Welaratna and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1994-10-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1975, after years of civil war, Cambodians welcomed the Khmer Rouge. Once in power, the regime closed Cambodia to the outside world. Four years later, when the Vietnamese invaded Cambodia and defeated the Khmer Rouge, the world learned how the Khmer Rouge had turned the country into killing fields. After the Vietnamese takeover, thousands of Cambodians fled their homeland. This book presents the Cambodian refugee experience through nine first-person narratives of men, women and children who survived the holocaust and have begun new lives in America.
Download or read book Golden Leaf written by Kilong Ung and published by Kilong Ung. This book was released on 2009 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The memoir of a Khmer Rouge genocide survivor chronicles the incredible journey of an ambassador for peace from the killing fields to the Rotary Club of Portland and the fellowship of the Royal Rosarians, through minefields, rockets, bullets, refugee camps, and Reed College.
Download or read book Never Fall Down written by Patricia McCormick and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2012-05-08 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This National Book Award nominee from two-time finalist Patricia McCormick is the unforgettable story of Arn Chorn-Pond, who defied the odds to survive the Cambodian genocide of 1975-1979 and the labor camps of the Khmer Rouge. Based on the true story of Cambodian advocate Arn Chorn-Pond, and authentically told from his point of view as a young boy, this is an achingly raw and powerful historical novel about a child of war who becomes a man of peace. It includes an author's note and acknowledgments from Arn Chorn-Pond himself. When soldiers arrive in his hometown, Arn is just a normal little boy. But after the soldiers march the entire population into the countryside, his life is changed forever. Arn is separated from his family and assigned to a labor camp: working in the rice paddies under a blazing sun, he sees the other children dying before his eyes. One day, the soldiers ask if any of the kids can play an instrument. Arn's never played a note in his life, but he volunteers. This decision will save his life, but it will pull him into the very center of what we know today as the Killing Fields. And just as the country is about to be liberated, Arn is handed a gun and forced to become a soldier. Supports the Common Core State Standards.
Download or read book The Spirit of a Fighter written by Vannead Horn and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2016-10-21 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE SPIRIT OF A FIGHTER is a story about a person who was born in one of the poorest countries in the world, Cambodia. In fact, since the very first day of his life, he was not only condemned to be a kid living with a poor family in a poor country, but a kid who was victim of the cold war of the World Powers, the civil war and the genocide perpetrated by his own people, the Khmers Rouges in their famous Killing Fields. In this respect, in 1978 when he was only 20 years old, he was the sole survivor of his loving family of seven. But he, himself escaped from Cambodia and went to France in 1981 with his wife and 6 month-old baby boy. He became citizen of his new adopted Mother Land and started working there, first as a gardener, then as an engineer, and in 2004 he immigrated to the United States of America. In his new land of freedom and dreams, he continued to work as Engineer while his wife operated a Donut shop as the principal investor. In fact, the book provides details about the personality of a boy who did not want to accept his unlucky destiny by being born in the wrong place at the wrong time. As such, by this book, he wants to show the whole world how such a very poor kid could fight and manage his life from being bullied by his peers in his home country, and how he could survive the Killing Fields of the Khmers Rouges. Certainly by his own discipline, and aided by a sense of freedoms joy, he sought not only to succeed, but to excel by getting a Masters degree in engineering while in France. A degree he used and helped his three children to understand, love and work hard to be awarded the same degree. In such a spirit, I, Vannead HORN, the author of this book who has lived in three different continents, would just like to share my story in which I thoroughly describe how love from my family, despite different and tragic experiences, encouraged me to grow, survive and excel in life and built in me a character that was joyous and successful. This power can be found in any family which is nourished in love.
Download or read book Alive in the Killing Fields written by Nawuth Keat and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The gripping story of a young boy who survived the atrocities in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge and escaped to the United States.
Download or read book Survival in the Killing Fields written by Haing Ngor and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2012-10-25 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best known for his academy award-winning role as Dith Pran in "The Killing Fields", for Haing Ngor his greatest performance was not in Hollywood but in the rice paddies and labour camps of war-torn Cambodia. Here, in his memoir of life under the Khmer Rouge, is a searing account of a country's descent into hell. His was a world of war slaves and execution squads, of senseless brutality and mind-numbing torture; where families ceased to be and only a very special love could soar above the squalor, starvation and disease. An eyewitness account of the real killing fields by an extraordinary survivor, this book is a reminder of the horrors of war - and a testament to the enduring human spirit.
Download or read book On the Wings of a White Horse written by Oni Vitandham and published by Tate Publishing & Enterprises. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A moving account of survival in the face of genocide and personal hardships. It is the story of a child hidden in the jungle by her father and who escapes to become a young orphan and refugee on the streets of America.
Download or read book Music of the Ghosts written by Vaddey Ratner and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-04-11 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This “novel of extraordinary humanity” (Madeleine Thien, author of Do Not Say We Have Nothing) from New York Times bestselling author Vaddey Ratner reveals “the endless ways that families can be forged and broken hearts held” (Chicago Tribune) as a young woman begins an odyssey to discover the truth about her missing father. Leaving the safety of America, Teera returns to Cambodia for the first time since her harrowing escape as a child refugee. She carries a letter from a man who mysteriously signs himself as “the Old Musician” and claims to have known her father in the Khmer Rouge prison where he disappeared twenty-five years ago. In Phnom Penh, Teera finds a society still in turmoil, where perpetrators and survivors of unfathomable violence live side by side, striving to mend their still beloved country. She meets a young doctor who begins to open her heart, confronts her long-buried memories, and prepares to learn her father’s fate. Meanwhile, the Old Musician, who earns his modest keep playing ceremonial music at a temple, awaits Teera’s visit. He will have to confess the bonds he shared with her parents, the passion with which they all embraced the Khmer Rouge’s illusory promise of a democratic society, and the truth about her father’s end. A love story for things lost and restored, a lyrical hymn to the power of forgiveness, Music of the Ghosts is a “sensitive portrait of the inheritance of survival” (USA TODAY) and a journey through the embattled geography of the heart where love can be reborn.
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.
