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Cambodian author and human rights activist loung ung recounts the horrors she suffered as a child under the rule of the deadly khmer rouge. Ung lectures extensively, appears regularly in the media, and has made more than thirty trips back. When the khmer rouge stormed the city in 1975, the young girl and her family fled from village to village. Mamzels 12 in 2012, last quarter the 12 in 12 category. One day a group of soldiers called the khmer rouge comes into their city and. Vandal love is a breathtaking literary debut about the power of love to create and destroy.
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