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Mother and the Tiger: A Memoir of the Killing Fields by Dana Hui Lim is a very important book with much to teach us within its spellbinding beautifully crafted pages, deeply felt, very personal account of one of the darkest episodes in post W W I I history. Before I try to talk a bit about why I admire this book so much, I want to set out briefly the historical background as sadly many or perhaps most do not know it.

He had a vision of turning Cambodia into a purely agrian society, starting over at "year zero". He ordered all residents of cities to vacate.

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Under armed guard, often by children, millions were forced out of their homes to work in agricultural projects. Iintellectuals, ethnic Chinese, business people, those who wore glasses, those who gave the slightest resistance were executed. This continued from to As Lim explains in her narrative, it was in large part the destruction, destabilization, and atmosphere of terrible fear and suffering created by the senseless American bombing of Cambodia which created a society where this could happen.

About two million, twenty five percent of population, died from disease, starvation, exposure and execution from to It ended when the Vietnamese, the traditional enemy of the Cambodians, invaded the country in One of the most exciting episodes in Lim's book was the time those in her slave labor camp realized the Khmer Rouge guards were all gone and they were free.

As I read Lim's narrative, I of course knew she had survived to write her book and was relocated in Australia. I knew the basic outlines of the history I visited Siem Reap in to see great temple. The carved murals there are among the most amazing cultural entities I have ever seen but as the terrible events of this story begin, I totally mesmerized by a desire to learn her story and find out how she survived.