Sam
Sotha
In The Shade of A Quiet Killing Place:
A Personal Memoir
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April 17, 1975 Sam Sotha and his wife Sony, along with thousands
of others, were forced by the Khmer Rouge to leave Phnom Penh.
Shot, tortured, starved and enslaved in hard labor was the fate
of many Cambodians during the Khmer Rouge years.
In
In The Shade of A Quiet Killing Place: A Personal Memoir,
Sam Sotha tells a moving personal story of love and a couple’s
struggle for survival during the four years of their captivity
by the Khmer Rouge.
In
the context of intense brutality and human tragedy, Sam Sotha’s
In The Shade of A Quiet Killing Place gives an inspiringly
beautiful portrait of love between husband and wife that refused
to yield under such terror. Forced to leave their home and then
from one prison camp to another, Sam and Sony endured and witnessed
family separation, torture, starvation, mindless killings and
acts more horrific than death. Yet, against it all their spiritual
bond only grew stronger and became unbreakable. The strength of
their love guided the couple through the darkest moments, when
it seemed only a miracle could save them from certain death.
The
memoir is based on a hand-written diary and drawings recorded
while the couple waited for resettlement in the United States
in a refugee camp in Thailand. The book contains over fifty unique
Khmer-style drawings capturing the time and place, the emotions,
danger and turmoil in the couple’s experiences during the Pol
Pot rule.
Author’s
background
Sam
Sotha and his wife Sony resettled in the United States in 1982,
where they raised two children. Sotha became a leading advocate
for refugees and an active political leader in the US. The couple
returned to work in Cambodia in 1995. Sam Sotha has since served
as Secretary-General of Cambodian Mine Action and Victim Assistance
Authority (CMAA). He also serves as advisor to the prime minister
of Cambodia.
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Author Events -
Sam
Sotha will be interviewed on Tonight with Tom Mintier,
13th July 2007, True News Channel UBC 7. He will discuss
his book and recount his time in the killing fields.
And
on Saturday 14th July 2007, at 10.30 a.m. Sam Sotha will
deliver a lecture at the Siam Society and share his experiences
from In the Shade of a Quiet Killing Place.
See
more details on the talk |
First
Cambodia Book Launch 14 March 2007: read
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First
edition (2007) Hardback and Illustrated Heaven Lake Press, 139
pp.
