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Surviving the Killing Fields
Leakena's story as told to A & L Lewis.
This is Leakena's story of her childhood as she survived Pol Pot's horrific regime in Cambodia. Leakena miraculously survived the killing fields through courage and strength after her family was persecuted for belonging to the educated class.
This is Leakena's story of her childhood as she survived Pol Pot's horrific regime in Cambodia. Leakena miraculously survived the killing fields through courage and strength after her family was persecuted for belonging to the educated class.
158 pages, Paperback
First published April 30, 2014
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May 9, 2014
This was one of those books I could not put down. I tried hard not to read it in one session. How Leakena survived without psychological damage (I can only hope!) is a testament to her strong resolve and will power.
On TV we sometimes see images of refugees escaping countries, carrying belongings and carrying babies and helping the old and frail. Well imagine these images with soldiers forcing them along, killing and abusing them, and only to arrive at work camps where the families are separated, not allowed to speak to each other and work around the clock in atrocious conditions without adequate food and shelter. That is Pol Pots Cambodia. That was Leakena's reality.
Leakena tells her story from when her family was forced from their peaceful home, through her nightmare years, to how she met her husband and ends up in peaceful Tasmania.
It is the story that Leakena needed to tell the world, one she felt needed to be told and one that became possible when she met the Lewis's in Tasmania who helped her write this epic story. This book needs to be consumed with care and a box of tissues.
On TV we sometimes see images of refugees escaping countries, carrying belongings and carrying babies and helping the old and frail. Well imagine these images with soldiers forcing them along, killing and abusing them, and only to arrive at work camps where the families are separated, not allowed to speak to each other and work around the clock in atrocious conditions without adequate food and shelter. That is Pol Pots Cambodia. That was Leakena's reality.
Leakena tells her story from when her family was forced from their peaceful home, through her nightmare years, to how she met her husband and ends up in peaceful Tasmania.
It is the story that Leakena needed to tell the world, one she felt needed to be told and one that became possible when she met the Lewis's in Tasmania who helped her write this epic story. This book needs to be consumed with care and a box of tissues.
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