cambodia

Presents accounts of narrow escapes executed by oppressed individuals and groups while illuminating social issues and the historical background that led to the atrocities committed in Cambodia's "killing fields" by the Khmer Rouge.

Nine-year-old Nat and his family are forced from their home on April 17, 1975, marched for many days, separated from each other, and forced to work in the rice fields, where Nat concentrates on survival. Includes historical notes and photographs documenting the Cambodian genocide.

Offers an introduction to the Cambodian genocide of 1975-1979, chronicling the events that surrounded the killings and the reasons behind the Khmer Rouge's bloody attacks.

Raami is seven-years-old when the Khmer Rouge regime takes power in Cambodia and over the next four years she fights for survival amid the systematic violence and atrocities that surround her.

A biography of the prime minister of Cambodia.

Loung Ung recounts her struggles to adapt to life in America after arriving in 1980 as a ten-year-old Cambodian refugee.

An investigative account of the secret war in Cambodia during the Vietnam War, and of the use of power by Nixon and Kissinger in Indo-Chinese foreign policy.

A Cambodian version of Cinderella in which a poor girl marries a prince, is killed by her jealous stepfamily, and then, through her virtue, returns to become queen.

Provides a description of a young Cambodian boy, Kradji, and includes information about the country, region, and culture he is from, as well as a discussion of the different aspects of his school and family life.