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First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers is a 2000 non-fiction book written by Loung Ung, a Cambodian-American author and childhood survivor of Democratic Kampuchea. It is her personal account of her experiences during the Khmer Rouge regime.
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 ...
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]
In 1975 Khmer Republic, Loung Ung is the five-year-old daughter of an officer of the Khmer National Armed Forces, known as "Pa" to his seven children.During the Vietnam War, the fighting spills over into neighboring Cambodia when the United States military begins bombing North Vietnamese forces attempting to shelter in the neutral territory, commencing the Cambodian Civil War.
Loung Ung, author of First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers. 2000. New York: Perennial. ISBN 0-06-093138-8 (themes: denunciations of Khmer Rouge brutality and racism) Mordechai Vanunu, author of Letters from Solitary, a book of letters from Vanunu to Rev. David B. Smith of Sydney, Australia.
Loung Ung, Human Rights Activist . 18. "If you don’t vote, you lose the right to complain.” ... Michelle Obama, Former First Lady. 49. "We should not be held back from pursuing our full ...
Empire Express: Building the First Transcontinental Railroad: First transcontinental railroad: March 12, 2000: Howard Zinn: A People's History of the United States, 1492-Present: U.S. History; Populism: March 19, 2000: Loung Ung: First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers: Memoir/Autobiography; Khmer Rouge rule of Cambodia ...
Heringer's final work to be published during his lifetime was a translation to Portuguese of Loung Ung's 2000 memoir First They Killed My Father, which came out in Brazil in 2017 through HarperCollins.