Loung ung biography definition

Cambodian-born US human-rights activist

Loung Ung (Khmer: អ៊ឹង លួង; born 19 November ) is a Cambodian-American human-rightsactivist, lecturer and national spokesperson for the Campaign for a Landmine-Free World from to She has served in the same capacity for the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, which is affiliated with the Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation.

Born in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Ung was the sixth of seven children and the third of four girls to Seng Im Ung and Ay Choung Ung. At the age of 10, she escaped from Cambodia as a survivor of what became known as "the Killing Fields" during the reign of Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge regime.

After being resettled as a refugee to United States, she eventually wrote two books which related to her life experiences from through ^[1]

Biography

Memoirs

Ung's first memoir, First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers, details her experiences in Cambodia from until "From to —through e