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• To Destroy You Is No Loss The Odyssey of a Cambodian Family
• Joan D. Criddle
• English
• 07 April 2018
• 9780963220516

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To Destroy You Is No Loss The Odyssey of a Cambodian Family review ´ 3 Ntry Khieu’s plan was designed to be put into effect with “ruthless force” And it wasAs terrible as horrible as depressing as it is to learn how political and economic extremism can distort human perception and turn men into beasts Teeda’s story is at the same time absorbing edifying and ennobling even hopeful She and her family are exemplars of human courage determination and resourcefulness After four years spent in slave labor and another year in a frustrating attempt to escape with her family to the United States their spirit of liberty was never crushed If their destruction was “no loss” to the Khmer Rouge their preservation has been a decided gain for the citizenry of the United Stat. This is one of the most moving books I have ever read It is a biography written by an lds author in first person narrative It chronicles the life of a young girl and her family in Cambodia in the 1970 s I read this book as part of a World History Class at BYU WARNING It is graphic and not a happy feel good story It s been a long time since I read it but I learned things I had never even heard of that went on in our world at the time I was a young child When my family was living in Kansas in the early 1980 s my dad was the bishop and I remember alot of Cambodiam refugees coming to stay with families in our ward and area I had no idea what kinds of things some of them experienced before coming to America A wonderfully informative read about an incredible woman and her struggle for physical as well as spiritual survival in a very dark period in the history of our world Captain Action Riddle of the Glowing Men resourcefulness After four years spent in slave labor and another year in a frustrating attempt to escape with her family to the United States their spirit of liberty was never crushed If their destruction was “no loss” to the Khmer Rouge their preservation has been a decided gain for the citizenry of the United Stat. This is one of the most moving books I have ever Unbridled Unlikely Lovers #1 read It is a biography written by an lds author in first person narrative It chronicles the life of a young girl and her family in Cambodia in the 1970 s I Romancing the Werewolf read this book as part of a World History Class at BYU WARNING It is graphic and not a happy feel good story It s been a long time since I How to Do What You Love & Earn What You’re Worth as a Programmer read it but I learned things I had never even heard of that went on in our world at the time I was a young child When my family was living in Kansas in the early 1980 s my dad was the bishop and I The Business Romantic remember alot of Cambodiam Victory Over Death refugees coming to stay with families in our ward and area I had no idea what kinds of things some of them experienced before coming to America A wonderfully informative テンカウント 4 read about an incredible woman and her struggle for physical as well as spiritual survival in a very dark period in the history of our world

To Destroy You Is No Loss The Odyssey of a Cambodian Family review ´ 3 This amazing book was written by California author Joan Criddle who has done a remarkable job in simulating the words of a Cambodian American Silicon Valley computer programmer Teeda Butt Mam the daughter of a Lon Nol minor government official When Phnom Pehn fell Teeda was fifteen years old and attending an English school in the city As a pampered child of a well to do urban family she was not prepared to endure the hardships and the horrors which she would soon be forced to experienceUpon the defeat of the Lon Nol Khmer Republic Pol Pot founded Democratic Kampuchea and launched the economic plan of his French trained associate Khieu Samphan who held that land was the source of all wealth Khieu spurn. This was a thoroughly fascinating book and by far the best personal account of survival during the Pol Pot regime that I have read Of the other 12 first person stories that I ve finished in the past year only this book really attempted to put the survivor s experience into historical and cultural context explaining some of the history and background to the Khmer Rouge nightmare and helping the reader understand how Khmer culture devolved during the communist nightmare her portrayal of how Khmer marriage customs changed is particularly interesting Teeda s experiences are not as harsh as Molyda Szymusiak s The Stones Cry Out A Cambodian Childhood 1975 1980 or Laurence Pic s Beyond the Horizon Five Years With the Khmer Rouge but she managed to avoid death and severe privation through keen observation of what the Khmer Rouge considered worthy and what they punished Perhaps the worst experience Teeda describes comes after her escape to the Thai border when she and her family are pushed into a minefield by Thai soldiers at the infamous Preah Vihear forced repatriation the clearest and most detailed account of this incident that I ve encountered The author Joan Criddle must have done significant amounts of research in writing this book at a time when relatively little information on the Khmer Rouge was in print but it is all presented in a literate and very readable style in the context of Teeda s tale I d rate this book above many other Khmer Rouge survival stories although Chanrithy Him s When Broken Glass Floats Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge is also very worthwhile It certainly eclipses badly edited works such as Escape from the Killing Fields One Girl Who Survived the Cambodian Holocaust The Price We Paid A Life Experience in the Khmer Rouge Regime and The Death and Life of Dith Pran

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To Destroy You Is No Loss The Odyssey of a Cambodian Family review ´ 3 Ed technological and industrial development According to him only agricultural abundance and high prices for agricultural products could create economic prosperity He viewed the Cambodian peasant as a “natural man” whose knowledge of agriculture was a sufficient education for anyone if supplemented with an elementary knowledge of reading writing and arithmetic He also believed that educated urbanites had been so corrupted by Western ideas and values that they were a “useless” entity in the economic body unless they could be successfully re educated brainwashed and transformed into ideologically correct peasants; otherwise he believed they should be destroyed not being any “loss” to the cou. A book along the lines of Three Swans this told the story of a Cambodian family suffering under the Communist regime instituted by Pol Pot Over and over again I see the same pattern of despots destroying family religion and education to control and demoralize people The family s perseverance and ability to cling to hope and each was inspiring