After seeing Loung Ung, author of “First They Killed My Father,” speak at a recent event organized by the Stanford Khmer Association, I was more than a little shook. I don’t know what I expected going ...

Loung Ung talks about her journey that led to her memoir and now a film directed by Jolie Loung Ung had seen more by the age of 10 than most people experience in a lifetime. Ung was raised in an upper ...

Until the age of five, Loung Ung lived in Phnom Penh, one of seven children of a high-ranking government official. When Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge army stormed the city in April 1975, Loung’s family fled ...

In 1975, Loung Ung was just 5 years old, living with her family in the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh where her dad worked in the government. That year the communist Khmer Rouge regime came to power.

The actress ‘has had a high-profile, uneven record as a director’ – but her latest film is ‘stunning’, writes Caryn James. The subtitle of Angelina Jolie’s First They Killed My Father distills the ...

From a childhood survivor of the Cambodian genocide under the regime of Pol Pot, this is a riveting narrative of war crimes and desperate actions, the unnerving strength of a small girl and her family ...

NEW YORK, April 23, 2012 — Activist, writer and survivor of the Cambodian genocide Loung Ung gave an Asia Society audience a close-up look at her battles with post-traumatic stress disorder and fear ...

The actress is leaning on a very special friend – and they share a strong bond. Ange, 42, poured her heart into her directorial passion project First They Killed My Father, a made-for-Netflix film ...

B I grew up with three sisters and three brothers. My father was Cambodian and my mum came from Chaozhou (in Guangdong province); we were raised to speak Cambodian and Teochew. I have many good ...

Loung Ung’s story reveals the brutal reality behind the Cambodian genocide depicted in Angelina Jolie’s film. As a child, she witnessed the destruction of her family, endured starvation, and lived in ...