Soul Survivors gives voice to the women and children who stayed in Cambodia after the genocide (1975-1979), when nearly two million people died from execution, starvation, or disease. It includes the stories of two refugees who came to the US as orphans, returning as young adults to help their country. These engaging personal narratives reveal that hope and kindness survived the darkest period of Cambodia's recent history. Sixty-four photographs draw the reader into contemporary Cambodia to witness the survivors' courageous work to rebuild their lives, families, and culture in one of the poorest nations in the world. Soul Survivors includes a chronology of Cambodian history, a map, and an index. Additional chapters describe the Khmer Rouge, the role of the US, the landmine situation, and the Buddhist peace movement. "These are the stories of survivors of the Khmer Rouge regime, but also survivors of war, of corrupt governments, of poverty, of hatred, of racism. It is in the details of their lives, as a teacher, a dancer, a doctor ... that one finds great heroism. The book is important because it is about the best of what it means to be human." - Dr. Judy Ledgerwood, SE Asian Studies, Northern Illinois University "An absorbing collection... fourteen resilient survivors tell their stories and endow their battered, courageous country, and the readers of this book, with some of their own energies, intelligence and grace. Photographs bring the witnesses and their surroundings vividly to life." - David Chandler, Author of A History of Cambodia " The eloquence of their stories and the heartbreak they depict become ennobling because of the spirit that carries them. They are stories that have to be told, that have to be held up to the light of humanity. In their extraordinary way, Bhavia Wagner and Valentina DuBasky have entered the heart of sorrow to bring forth this spirit and let it speak to us. " - Jack Kornfield, Buddhist Teacher, Spirit Rock Center " Soul Survivors provides a painfully human face to the Cambodian genocide. The book effectively demonstrates the political, economic, and psychological links between the destruction of Cambodian society carried out in the 1970s and the suffering experienced by so many Cambodians today." - Susan E. Cook, Director, Cambodian Genocide Program, Yale " Soul Survivors awakens us to the horrors that humanity has perpetrated in the last century. It must arouse us from the complacency of doing nothing about the growing violence." - Arun Gandhi, Founder, M.K. Gandhi Institute of Nonviolence CAROL WAGNER has been working to end violence and heal the wounds of war for the past fifteen years. As the former director of a peace center located in the San Francisco Bay Area, she started programs in conflict resolution and race relations. She works with women’s organizations in Cambodia and Vietnam and has led educational tours to those countries. Her efforts include marketing handicrafts made by landmine victims and poor women and raising funds for many humanitarian projects such as a women’s revolving loan fund, scholarship programs, and medical clinics. She was a UN-trained observer in Cambodia’s 1998 election. Used Book in Good Condition