TY - BOOK ID - 77894106 TI - Children of Cambodia's killing fields AU - Dith Pran AU - DePaul, Kim PY - 1997 SN - 9786611722937 1281722936 0300133839 0585347603 9780585347608 9780300133837 0300068395 0300078730 9780300068399 6611722939 9781281722935 PB - New Haven, Conn. Yale University Press DB - UniCat KW - Political atrocities KW - Children KW - Childhood KW - Kids (Children) KW - Pedology (Child study) KW - Youngsters KW - Age groups KW - Families KW - Life cycle, Human KW - Cambodia KW - History KW - S32/0200 KW - Central Asia--Central Asia: general works KW - Political atrocities -- Cambodia.. KW - Children -- Cambodia -- Biography.. KW - Cambodia -- History -- 1975-1979. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77894106 AB - This extraordinary book contains eyewitness accounts of life in Cambodia during Pol Pot's genocidal Khmer Rouge regime from 1975 to 1979, accounts written by survivors who were children at the time. The book has been put together by Dith Pran, whose own experiences in Cambodia were so graphically portrayed in the film The Killing Fields.The testimonies related here bear poignant witness to the slaughter the Khmer Rouge inflicted on the Cambodian people. The contributors-most of them now in the United States and pictured in photographs that accompany their stories-report on life in Democratic Kampuchea as seen through children's eyes. They speak of their bewilderment and pain as Khmer Rouge cadres tore their families apart, subjected them to harsh brainwashing, drove them from their homes to work in forced-labor camps, and executed captives in front of them. Their stories tell of suffering and the loss of innocence, the struggle to survive against all odds, and the ultimate triumph of the human spirit. ER -