The Elimination: A Survivor of the Khmer Rouge Confronts his Past and the Commandant of the Killing Fields by Rithy Panh

The Elimination: A Survivor of the Khmer Rouge Confronts his Past and the Commandant of the Killing Fields

Rithy Panh

271 pages first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction history memoir emotional informative sad slow-paced
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From 1975 to 1979 'Comrade' Duch was in charge of S 21, the security prison at the heart of Pnomh Penh where 12,380 people were tortured and executed, having confessed to imaginary betrayals of the regime. After his film S21, which brought survivo...

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