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082			_a959.6 CRU
100			_aCruvellier, T., _q(Thierry)
240			_aMaître des aveux
245		4	_aThe master of confessions : _bthe making of a Khmer Rouge torturer / _cThierry Cruvellier ; translated from the French by Alex Gilly
250			_aFirst edition
260			_aNew York, NY : _b Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers , _c[2014]
300			_avi, 326 pages _b ; _c24 cm
500			_aOriginally published in France in 2011 by Editions Gallimard/Versilio as Le maître des aveux
500			_aWith 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	_aKang, Kech Ieu, _d1942-
650		0	_aTrials (Crimes against humanity) _zCambodia
650		0	_aWar crime trials _zCambodia
650		0	_aPolitical atrocities _zCambodia
700			_aGilly, Alex, _ctranslator
942			_cBE
999			_c1977 _d1977