Alive In The Killing Fields (2009) - Plot & Excerpts
Van Lan told me in a low voice as I was just about to fall asleep one night. “They will save Cambodia from the ‘saviors.’” “How do you know?” I asked. “The freedom news reported it,” he said, and I knew what he meant. We got the news from the radio. Of course, the Khmer Rouge did not permit anybody to have a radio. But some of the adults had one anyway. Without a battery, it was of no use, and nobody had batteries. But someone managed to rig a battery out of salt, dried charcoal and a piece of metal. This makeshift battery worked for about an hour. The adults listened in the evenings, taking turns to make sure no Khmer Rouge could hear them. The Khmer Rouge usually camped at night in the jungle, away from us. Even though having a radio was risky, Van Lan craved information. Without it, we were totally isolated. We had no idea what was happening anywhere else in the country. In whispers, the adults called the program “freedom news.” It was broadcast in the Cambodian language from Washington D.C., a place that somebody said was in America.
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