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Website. www .loungung .com. 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. She has served in the same capacity for the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, which is affiliated ...
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- Saint Michael's College
- 21st century (2000–present)
LOUNG UNG. Author, activist and co-screenplay writer of First They Killed My Father, now a film streaming on Netflix directed by Angelina Jolie, Loung Ung utilizes storytelling to create resilience and healing narratives from the pages to screen. Loung began her activism work in 1993 as a Community Educator for a domestic shelter in Maine, and ...
Aug 3, 2017 · Loung Ung had seen more by the age of 10 than most people experience in a lifetime. Ung was raised in an upper middle class family in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, her father a military officer in the ...
Interview: Genocide Survivor Loung Ung Reclaims Life, and Light, in New Memoir. "Whatever your situation, it is possible to reclaim your light, life and laughter." This is the conclusion of Loung Ung's latest book, Lulu in the Sky — one whose truth she knows better than most. As a survivor of the Cambodian genocide, Ung has faced her share of ...
Aug 26, 2021 · In April 1975, when Loung Ung was 5 years-old, the Khmer Rouge took control of Cambodia. After fleeing their Phnom Penh-based home, Ung and her family spent the next four years separated from one another while concealing their identities. Ung, who was in a work camp for orphans, was trained as a child soldier. Her siblings were sent to labor camps.
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Apr 4, 2006 · Loung Ung is an author, lecturer, and activist who has devoted her life to advancing human rights and equality in Cambodia and around the world. She is the author of the memoir First They Killed My Father: a Daughter of Cambodia Remembers (HarperCollins 2000), which tells the story of her survival under the Khmer Rouge regime.
LUCKY CHILD. In this lyrical sequel to her bestselling, critically acclaimed memoir First They Killed My Father, Loung Ung describes her school years in Vermont as a Cambodian refugee and, in alternating chapters, gives voice to her sister’s experience as a genocide survivor left behind in rural Cambodia. This striking parallel of Loung’s ...
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