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First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
Ung, Loung. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers. New York: HarperCollins, 2000.
Why this matters here
Ung’s memoir recounts Khmer Rouge family destruction and child experience in particular names and days, resisting abstraction into totals alone. When Interpretation No Longer Matters cites it among survivor records that insist particularity against speaking only in millions—judgment arrives late, but late is not never, and a statistic remains this uncle and this sister on the ground.
