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Born and reared near the famous Siem Reap “Angkor World Heritage Site,” Ronnie Yimsut fled Cambodia after witnessing the massacre of nearly his entire family under the Khmer Rouge regime. He is a genocide survivor and an orphan, having become a “political” refugee at the age of fifteen. As a proud American of Khmer heritage today, he is a senior landscape architect for the USDA Forest Service and an activist involved in various national and international NGOs dealing with social and environmental justice issues, through which he has been working on the monumental Bakong Technical College (www.bakongtechcollege .org) in his native Siem Reap. Yimsut has been the subject of independent documentary films and news reports by CBS News, NBC News, National Geographic Explorer, PBS, Europe ARNTE TV, and others. His writing credits include Journey to Freedom (Documentation Center of Cambodia, 2006); In the Shadow of Angkor (Manoa Journal, University of Hawai’i Press, 2004); “Life Is a Poem” (earned an award from the Poetry Society of America, 2004); and “Tonle Sap Lake Massacre,” in Children of Cambodia’s Killing Fields (Yale University Press, 1997). In 2009 the Milwaukee Business Journal recognized Ronnie as one of “Milwaukee Area’s Most Influential People.” David Chandler, Ph.D., is a professor emeritus of history at Monash University in Australia. Daniel Savin, M.D., is an associate professor of psychiatry at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. ABOUT THE AUTHOR ...

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