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Loung Ung is a Cambodian-American human-rights activist. Born in Phnom Penh, Ung came from an affluent Cambodian family. Since her father was a senior military official, the Ung family was specifically targeted in a genocide known as the Killing Fields. [4] An orphan, Ung spent time in a labor camp and a child-soldier training camp. [3]
The book is a first-person account, as seen through the eyes of a child, of the rise of the Communist Khmer Rouge regime in the 1970s, its enforced mass relocation of the urban population to the countryside to do manual labour (leading to massive levels of fatality), and the regime's eventual collapse. The blurb for the book reads:
Ung's first book has been criticized by members of the Cambodian community in the U.S., a number of whom believe that it is more a work of fiction than an actual autobiography. She has also been accused of misrepresenting the Khmer people and playing on ethnic stereotypes for the purpose of self-aggrandizement and over-dramatization to increase ...
[3] University of North Georgia Press is an affiliate member of the Association of University Presses , [ 5 ] to which it was admitted in 2021. [ 6 ] It is also an "Affordable Learning Georgia" partner and a member of the Association of the United States Army's (AUSA) Book Program .
Book clubs are a great way to a.) read more, b.) spend quality time with friends and c.) kill two birds with one stone and do both of those things at the same time. Whether you and your friends ...
The University of North Georgia (UNG) is a public senior military college with multiple campuses in Georgia, United States.It is part of the University System of Georgia.The university was established on January 8, 2013, through a merger of North Georgia College & State University (founded 1873) and Gainesville State College (founded 1964).
Minfong Ho (born January 7, 1951) is a Chinese–American writer. Her works frequently deal with the lives of people living in poverty in Southeast Asian countries. Despite being fiction, her stories are always set against the backdrop of real events, such as the student movement in Thailand in the 1970s and the Cambodian refugee problem with the collapse of the Khmer Rouge regime at the turn ...
6. "The most important office, and the one which all of us can and should fill, is that of private citizen." Louis Brandeis, American Lawyer and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court