About SURVIVING THE KHMER ROUGE GENOCIDE: Growing up as everything began
KC Ung is one of the survivors from the period of 1975 to 1979, during the reign of the Cambodian Khmer Rouge, which makes a dark chapter in history.
At a mere 15 years old, KC Ung’s life was turning upside down overnight. In 1975, the Cambodian civil war that had been raging for years was now over, with the Khmer Rouge having seized victories one province at a time. What could have been a new era of peace was instead the beginning of the largest genocide in Asian history, claiming the lives of a quarter of the total Cambodian population. Families across the country were now thrown into a fight for survival, a fight that an unfortunate many people were not able to win. Execution, starvation, and disease plagued the population, but along with the atrocities was a strong sense of hope, resilience, and strength of spirit from those who continued to push forward to see another day.
Through SURVIVING THE KHMER ROUGE GENOCIDE Growing up as everything began, KC Ung details her harrowing journey through communist controlled Cambodia. She recalls the struggles of building homes along rivers and in mountains, foraging for food and enduring the hardships of labor camps. She shares harrowing experiences of escaping death and witnessing the Khmer Rouge’s brutal acts of torture and killing.
Follow her through these memories and experience the horror, and the hope, of surviving the Khmer Rouge genocide.
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