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Cargando... The Master of Confessions: The Making of a Khmer Rouge Torturer (edición 2014)por Thierry Cruvellier (Autor)
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Read on a van from Siem Reap to Sen Monorom -- absolutely riveting and one of the most thoughtful examinations not only of Cambodia, but the phenomenon of international human rights trials I've read. One of the many details Cruvellier hammers home is that most of the Khmer Rouge's victims were themselves Khmer Rouge cadre. I am hard-pressed to think of another genocidal regime that did the same. I disagreed with some of his analysis, but overall this belongs in the library of anyone interested in probing the inner depths of the worst human beings can do to each other. ( ) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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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. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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