Running Toward the Guns: A Memoir of Escape from Cambodia

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Running Toward the Guns is an autobiographical story and an accounting of Chanty Jong’s personal inner self-healing journey that lead to a successfully unexpected discovery. Jong survived the Cambodian genocide during the Khmer Rouge regime of 1975-1979, witnessing the horrors of the killing fields, torture, starvation and much more. His vivid narrative recounts the suffering under the Khmer Rouge, his perseverance to survive physically and emotionally and his perilous escape to America. His memoir relives the traumatic memories of his experiences and traces his arduous personal transformation toward a life of inner peace through intensive meditation.