Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part one War is a Terrible Thing!
- Part Two Guarding One’s Humanity During War: World War II
- Part Three Other Voices, Other Wars: From Indochina to Iraq
- 8 For My Family
- 9 Bad Memory, Bad Feeling
- 10 Someone Loving Me
- 11 Collateral Damage and the Greater Good
- 12 Easily the Worst Experience of My Life
- Part Four Civil Wars and Genocides, Dictators and Domestic Oppressors
- Part Five My Story, Your Choice How to Use it
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgments by the Senior Author
- Index
10 - Someone Loving Me
Kimberly, on the Khmer Rouge
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 October 2014
- Frontmatter
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part one War is a Terrible Thing!
- Part Two Guarding One’s Humanity During War: World War II
- Part Three Other Voices, Other Wars: From Indochina to Iraq
- 8 For My Family
- 9 Bad Memory, Bad Feeling
- 10 Someone Loving Me
- 11 Collateral Damage and the Greater Good
- 12 Easily the Worst Experience of My Life
- Part Four Civil Wars and Genocides, Dictators and Domestic Oppressors
- Part Five My Story, Your Choice How to Use it
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgments by the Senior Author
- Index
Summary
Q. What was your life like growing up? How was your relationship with your parents?
We had a great relationship; our family was very close, bonded. I had a total of nine in my family, and I’m in the middle. We were born and raised in Cambodia, in Phnom Penh, in a business family.
Q. Was there anyone, in your family or a neighbor, whowas an influential role model?
Yes, my dad. He is my role model. He is my mentor. He is somebody I look up to. Who I am today is because of him.
Q. When you were younger, was there anything about you or your family that set you apart from the rest of your community?
No. Until the age of thirteen it never crossed my mind something would happen in Cambodia. Unfortunately, it did happen, and Iwas devastated. I was lost. I was thirteen when war began. April seventeenth, 1975. I had been born and raised in the city, in a very educated family, a business family. They took us from the city and made everyone go to the countryside. We go back to zero. They wiped out all education, all doctors and professors. That way we could all be laborers and work on farms.
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- A Darkling PlainStories of Conflict and Humanity during War, pp. 149 - 165Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2014