Beginning in 1969, the small Asian nation of Cambodia was assaulted, first by secret US bombing raids emanating from the neighbouring Vietnam War, and later from within by Pol Pot. During his leadership, 25 per cent of Cambodia's population was murdered and the rest were banished to work in labour camps. Darkness had truly descended upon this country, and the world at the time hardly noticed. "Year Zero" had begun.Mother and the Tiger is the memoir of Dana Hui Lim, who struggled to survive one of the most barbaric regimes in human history. Surrounded by madness, six-year-old Hui was cast into a nightmare that seemed endless. Cursed by a part Chinese ancestry, her family was especially targeted. To endure where two million others died, Hui had to find an inner strength that she never knew she possessed. Despite her young age and the tyranny of the Khmer Rouge all around her, she then had to reunite with her scattered family, no matter what the odds.This memoir tells the story of a brutal regime through the eyes of one small girl and shows that even in the bleakest depths of tragedy, hope can endure.