Children of Cambodia's Killing Fields
Subtitle: Memoirs by Survivors
By: compiled by Dith Pran ; introduction by Ben Kiernan ; edited by Kim DePaul.
Contributors: Dith Pran, 1942-; DePaul, Kim.
Series: Yale Southeast Asia studies monograph series
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New Haven, CT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 199
Subjects: Political atrocities -- Cambodia; Children -- Cambodia -- Biography; Cambodia -- History -- 1975-1979
Genres: Biography.
Description: 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 memoirs were gathered by Dith Pran, whose own experiences in Cambodia were so graphically portrayed in the film The Killing Fields.

These testimonies bear shattering witness to the slaughter committed by the Khmer Rouge. The contributors - most of them now living 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 brainwashing, drove them from their homes to work in forced-labor camps, and executed captives in front of them.

Their stories tell of suffering, the loss of innocence, the struggle to survive against all odds, and the ultimate triumph of the human spirit.