The master of confessions : (Record no. 1980)
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| fixed length control field | 01779nam a2200229Ia 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9780062329691 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Transcribing agency | Norinthor |
| 041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE | |
| Language code of original and/or intermediate translations of text | eng |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 959.6 |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Cruvellier, T., |
| Fuller form of name | (Thierry) |
| 240 ## - UNIFORM TITLE | |
| Uniform title | Maître des aveux. |
| 245 #4 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The master of confessions : |
| Remainder of title | the making of a Khmer Rouge torturer / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc | Thierry Cruvellier ; translated from the French by Alex Gilly |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT | |
| Edition statement | First edition |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication | New York, NY : |
| Name of publisher | Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers , |
| Year of publication | [2015] |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | viii, 326 pages |
| Other physical details | ; |
| Dimensions | 21 cm |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | Originally published in France in 2011 by Editions Gallimard/Versilio as Le maître des aveux. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | With chilling clarity, a veteran international journalist delineates the totalitarian ideology and horrific crimes of the leaders of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge. A witness to and chronicler of the war-crimes trials of Rwanda (Court of Remorse, 2010), Cruvellier likewise attended the arduous eight-month Khmer Rouge Tribunal in 2009 of the notorious head of the S-21 "death mill" in Phnom Penh, Kaing Guek Eav, aka Duch. Duch managed the prison, formerly a high school, between 1975 and 1979, and he was tasked with interrogating, eliciting confessions by torture and "smashing" the victim--the verb preferred by the court. A meticulous, methodical former math teacher and a loyal Khmer party member, Duch, then in his mid-30s, was the "perfect fit for the job" of interrogator. The pride he took in his work was reflected in the careful records he diligently kept and did not destroy before he fled upon the invasion of the Vietnamese in early 1979. |
| 600 #4 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Kang, Kech Ieu, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1942- |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Trials (Crimes against humanity) |
| Geographic subdivision | Cambodia |
| 700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Gilly, Alex, |
| Titles and other words associated with a name | translator |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | BE |
| Lost status | Permanent Location | Current Location | Date acquired | Full call number | Shelving location | Barcode | Source of acquisition | Koha item type |
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| Resource Centre | Resource Centre | 21/02/2024 | 959.6 CRU | Shelving KR | BE1060 | ECCC | BE |