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Leaving the House of Ghosts
- Cambodian Refugees in the American Midwest
Engelsk Paperback
Leaving the House of Ghosts
- Cambodian Refugees in the American Midwest
Engelsk Paperback

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On April 17, 1975, after five years of civil war, the Khmer Rouge guerrillas invaded Cambodia''s major cities and forced the residents on a mass exodus to the countryside. Their leader, Pol Pot, established a government based on terror to bring about his dream of an agrarian society where work was done by hand--without what he believed to be corruptive influences. By the time the Vietnamese captured Phnom Penh and ended this brutal experiment in communism in 1979, an estimated two million Cambodians were dead and hundreds of thousands had begun to flee the country for refugee camps in Thailand.

Survivors of Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge now living in the Midwest tell their stories in this work. Many of them were children during that time, unable to comprehend exactly what was happening and why, but now able to reveal the trauma they experienced.

Noeun Nor and Sinn Lok recollect being wrenched from their families and put into labor camps around the age of five. Prum Nath talks about her mother encouraging her to eat the last grains of her family''s rice. Sokhary You remembers giving birth on a mountain without a doctor or hospital and using rusty scissors to cut the umbilical cord.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
223
ISBN-13:
9780786413546
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0786413549
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
9 sep 2002
Længde:
11mm
Bredde:
152mm
Højde:
229mm
Forlag:
McFarland & Co Inc
Oplagsdato:
9 sep 2002
Forfatter(e):
Kategori sammenhænge