Loung Ung was only five when Pol Pot's deranged Khmer Rouge army stormed Cambodia's capital in 1975. Their mission: a collective nation of peasant farmers, with no one more skilled, schooled or nourished than anyone else. Loung and her large, loving family were expelled from their middle-class home, marched into the countryside, forced to work the land and fed almost nothing. Death took various forms, all of them violent. As their numbers diminished, the family ...
