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January 22, 2020 12:37 pm PST
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/HPW-YduHrIA/genocide-and-survival.html
Year of the Rabbit: a graphic novel memoir of one family's life under the Khmer Rouge
In 1975, Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge seized power in Cambodia after expelling a US puppet regime, surviving a brutal US bombing campaign despite the massive asymmetry between the Cambodian forces and the US military. Tian Veasna was born three days after the Khmer Rouge took power, and spent his formative years in forced labor camps as his family were beaten, starved, tortured and murdered. Today, Veasna is a comics creator living in France, and in Year of the Rabbit, Veasna creates a coherent story out of his family's narratives, giving us a ground-level view of the horrors of the Pol Pot regime, whose campaign of genocide led to the deaths of more than a million people.Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/HPW-YduHrIA/genocide-and-survival.html
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