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Survivors of the Khmer Rouge and Pol Pot's reign 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 Noth 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...
Contents
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 The Cambodian Autogenocide and Its Aftermath
2 The Race for Survival: The Story of Noeun Nor
3 The Weaker Brother
4 Tricked Twice: The Story of Sinn Lok
5 Crappie Fishing on Galpin Lake
6 Coming to a Third Country: The Story of Prum Nath
7 Why Do Some Survive?
8 A Land of Opportunity: The Story of Sam and Sokhary You
9 That Ordinary Monster, Pol Pot
10 Boat People: The Story of Sokkhom Ngep
11 The Next Generation
12 The Price of Success: The Story of Samantha Samreth
13 Housewarming
14 Born to Lead: The Story of Sarith Ou
15 To Go Forward
16 Against All Odds: The Story of Sophea Mouth
17 Coming Full Circle
Cambodia: A Chronology
Bibliography
Index