The Lost Executioner
A Journey to the Heart of the Killing Fields
Dunlop, Nic
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BOOK SYNOPSIS
In Cambodia, between 1975 and 1979, two million people died at the hands of the Khmer Rouge. Twenty years later, not one member had been held accountable for the genocide. Haunted by the image of one of them, Comrade Duch, photographer Nic Dunlop set outto bring him to life, and thereby to account. "I needed to understand how a seemingly ordinary man ... could turn into one of the worst mass murderers of the twentieth century." Dunlop unfolds the history of Cambodia as a filter for understanding its tragic last forty years. Guided by witnesses, he teases out the details of Duch's transformation from sensitive schoolchild and dedicated teacher to the revolutionary killer who later slipped quietly back into village life. This result is a vivid reminder that, whether in the killing fields of Cambodia or the deserts of Darfur, if we turn our backs on genocide, we must bear a collective guilt.--From publisher description.The author chronicles his efforts to track down Comrade Duch, a man responsible for some of the worst atrocities of Cambodia's killing fields, who has never been held accountable for his part in the crimes of the Khmer Rouge.
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0802714722
ISBN(13-digit): 9780802714725
Dewey Decimal: 959.604/2
Library of Congress: 2005056365
Book Publisher: St Martins Pr
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 326
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