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Gr 5-8 Young Nat narrates this harrowing story of his family's experience during the Cambodian genocide of the mid-to-late '70s, when a quarter of the country's population "]died of starvation, torture, or execution." The Khmer Rouge army evacuated millions of citizens to the countryside in an effort to create a classless society of peasant farmers. Subsisting on watery rice soup, Nat's family walks for days until they reach a rice field where the children, men, and women a...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

A nine-year-old Cambodian boy describes being ordered by the Khmer Rouge on a forced march to a countryside concentration c...Log In or Sign Up to Read More