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040 _csokunthea
041 _heng
082 _a959.6042
100 _aDunlop, Nic,
_qauthor
_d1969-
245 _aThe lost executioner :
_ba journey to the heart of the killing fields /
_cNic Dunlop
250 _a1st U.S. ed.
260 _aNew York :
_bWalker & Company ,
_c2006
300 _axviii, 326 pages :
_bill., map ;
_c22 cm
500 _a"First published in the United Kingdom in 2005 by Bloomsbury Publishing"--T.p. verso
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [318]-324)
520 _aIn 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 out to 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
600 _aKang, Kech Ieu
610 _aParti communiste du Kampuchea
651 0 _aCambodia
_xHistory
_y1975-1979
942 _cBE
999 _c2133
_d2133