Khmer rouge terms
Desired Khmer Rouge rural class.
What are "base people" or "peasants"?
She is the narrator and author of the memoir.
Who is Loung Ung?
Loung’s family leaves this city.
What is Phnom Penh?
Emotional connection between Loung and her siblings.
What is family/bond of family?
This communist group took control of Cambodia in 1975.
Who are the Khmer Rouge?
Enemy city people.
What are "new people"?
This person was Loung's protective father.
Who is Pa
Pa is taken away by soldiers and never returns what happened
What is he was executed/killed?
Emotional and physical effects of trauma
What is survival through trauma?
The Khmer Rouge evacuated this Cambodian capital city.
What is Phnom Penh?
"Year Zero" erased this.
What is history or civilization?
Loung’s older sister who works in a hospital camp.
Who is Keav?
Loung volunteers for this role in a military camp.
What is a child soldier/training as a soldier?
Loung must hide this personal part of her identity.
What is her Chinese heritage/class background?
This neighboring country invaded Cambodia in 1979, ending Khmer Rouge rule.
What is Vietnam?
Khmer Rouge children were trained as these.
What are soldiers?
Loung's older brother who teaches her survival skills.
Who is Kim?
The family pretends to be part of this class.
What are peasants/farmers?
What war destroys besides people.
What is family or society?
Pol Pot modeled his regime after this political ideology.
What is communism/Maoism?
Pol Pot’s code name.
Who is Brother Number One?
Loung’s sister who dies of starvation and dysentery.
Who is Keav?
Loung reunites with family here.
What is the United States (via Thailand)?
Loung’s emotional conflict about survival.
What is guilt or survivor’s guilt?
This genocide killed approximately 2 million Cambodians between 1975–1979.
What is the Cambodian Genocide?