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Loung Ung (Khmer: អ៊ឹង លួង; born 19 November 1970) is a Cambodian-American human-rights activist, lecturer and national spokesperson for the Campaign for a Landmine-Free World from 1997 to 2003.
Aug 3, 2017 · My Harrowing Escape from Cambodia's Khmer Rouge and How That Led to a Friendship with Angelina Jolie. Loung Ung talks about her journey that led to her memoir and now a film directed by Jolie...
As a survivor of the Cambodian genocide, Ung has faced her share of pain and loss, the story she laid bare in the memoirs First They Killed My Father and Lucky Child: the deaths of her parents and two siblings, transitioning to life as a refugee in America, and her hard-fought path to quell the demons of her past.
Jan 2, 2018 · Loung Ung remembers the first time she met her friend and collaborator Angelina Jolie. It was completely by chance in 2001, Ung recalled. She was doing work in Cambodia with...
yourteenmag.com · loung-ung-interviewInterview with Loung Ung, Author of First They Killed My Father
Sep 2, 2014 · Loung Ung, author, lecturer, and activist, was only five years old when the Khmer Rouge regime stormed Cambodia. By the time she was eight years old, her father, mother, and two sisters were all dead.
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Loung Ung is 5 years old when the Khmer Rouge assumes power over Cambodia in 1975. They soon begin a four-year reign of terror and genocide in which nearly 2 million...
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May 8, 2005 · Author Loung Ung tells NPR's Liane Hansen about her new book, Lucky Child. The memoir describes how Ung escaped the violence of the Khmer Rouge during the Cambodian conflict known as the...
