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- Loung Ung is a Cambodian-American human-rights activist. Born in Phnom Penh, Ung came from an affluent Cambodian family. Since her father was a senior military official, the Ung family was specifically targeted in a genocide known as the Killing Fields. An orphan, Ung spent time in a labor camp and a child-soldier training camp.
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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. She has served in the same capacity for the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, which is affiliated with the Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation .
- Cambodian
- Human Rights
- Saint Michael's College
- 21st century (2000–present)
Aug 3, 2017 · Published on August 3, 2017 10:00AM EDT. Photo: Omar Havana/Getty Images. Loung Ung had seen more by the age of 10 than most people experience in a lifetime. Ung was raised in an upper middle...
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.
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 ...
Jan 26, 2000 · Loung Ung. 4.34. 47,740 ratings4,048 reviews. From a childhood survivor of the Cambodian genocide under the regime of Pol Pot, this is a riveting narrative of war crimes and desperate actions, the unnerving strength of a small girl and her family, and their triumph of spirit.
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Jan 27, 2000 · LOUNG UNG (Loo-ahn-oong) is the author of the memoir, "First They Killed My Father: a daughter of Cambodia remembers" (HarperCollins).
Loung Ung was born in 1970 into a middle-class family in Phnom Penh. Five years later, her family was forced out of the city by the Khmer Rouge in the mass evacuation to the countryside. By 1978, the Khmer Rouge had killed Ung's parents and two of her siblings, and she was forced to train as a child soldier. In 1980, she and her older brother ...
