THE TEARS OF MY SOUL
By Sokreaksa S. Himm
Monarch Books / SAO Cambodia. 158 pages. £6.99
ISBN 1 5424 612 7
Now on the staff of Phnom Penh Bible College, Sokreaksa tells his life story from the time he was an 11-year-old on that dreadful day in April 1975 when his country Cambodia fell to the Khmer Rouge.
The moving account - of relocation with his family into the jungle villages, the brainwashing into murderous amorality of his fellow teenagers, the horror of witnessing the execution of his own family and his subsequent escape from the mass grave in which he had been left for dead with them - is written in graphic though never indulgent style.
