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December 18, 2017

Language of ‘First They Killed My Father’ Resonates With Cambodian-Americans

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SILVER SPRING, MARYLAND — 

Propelled by the power of hearing their stories in their own language, some Cambodian American audience members fled in tears from a screening of First They Killed My Father, the Angelina Jolie film adaptation of an English-language memoir of a 5-year-old girl who witnessed the Khmer Rouge takeover of Cambodia in 1975. Read more…

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