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I think how the world is still somehow beautiful even when I feel no joy at being alive within it.

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From 1975 to 1979 - through execution, starvation, disease, and forced labor - the Khmer Rouge systematically killed an estimated two million Cambodians, almost a fourth of the country's population.

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As I tell people about genocide, I get the opportunity to redeem myself. I've had the chance to do something that's worth me being alive... The more I tell people, the less the nightmares haunt me.

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In my heart I know the truth, but my mind cannot accept the reality of what this all means.

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I am six years old and instead of celebrating with birthday cakes, I chew on a piece of charcoal.

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You're neither unnatural, nor abominable, nor mad; you're as much a part of what people call nature as anyone else; only you're unexplained as yet—you've not got your niche in creation.
Radclyffe Hall

Loung Ung

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Born: April 17, 1970 (age 55)
Bio: Loung Ung is a Cambodian-born American human-rights activist and lecturer. She is the national spokesperson for the Campaign for a Landmine-Free World.
Known for:
  1. First They Killed My Father (2000)
  2. Lucky Child (2000)
  3. Der weite Weg der Hoffnung. (2001)

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