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2009 memoir by Nawuth Keat

Alive in the Killing Fields is the memoir of Nawuth Keat, a survivor of the Khmer Rouge genocide in Cambodia.

The book was published in 2009 by National Geographic.^[1][2][3]

Plot

Nawuth Keat was the fifth of eight children in a Cambodian village known as Salatrave.

His father was a prosperous rice farmer, owning both a motorcycle and a tractor. This wealth places Nawuth and his family in particular danger from the Khmer Rouge.

After the dictator Pol Potoverruns the government with the aid of the Khmer Rouge, Nawuth's life is completely transformed.

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Without warning, Salatrave is attacked and Nawuth's mother, grandmother, sister, aunt, and uncle are massacred. Nawuth himself is shot three times. Nawuth survives his attack and is sent by his father to live in the city of Battambang with his older sister, Chantha.

Nawuth's father remains in Salatrave.

Eventually, the Khmer Rouge invade