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First They Killed My Father

by Loung Ung

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First published: 2000
Pages: 256

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First They Killed My Father is the title of a book and a film based on the book. The book is a memoir by Loung Ung, who survived the Cambodian mass killing under the Khmer Rouge regime in the 1970s. The film is directed by Angelina Jolie and stars Sareum Srey Moch as Loung Ung. Both the book and the film depict the horrors of war, the loss of family, and the resilience of the human spirit.

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Loung Ung

Ung was five when the Khmer Rouge emptied Phnom Penh in April 1975. Her father was a government officer, which was a death sentence once discovered; both parents and two of her siblings were killed, and she was put through training as a child soldier in a camp for orphans.

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