The elimination
Subtitle: a survivor of the Khmer Rouge confronts his past and the commandant of the killing fields
By: by Rithy Panh with Christophe Bataille ; translated by John Cullen
Contributors: Bataille, Christophe; Cullen, John, 1942-
Publisher: Other Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
ISBN-13: 9781590515587
Subjects: Politics and government; Political atrocities; Parti communiste du Kampuchea; Genocide survivors; Political refugees; Biography
Work titles: Élimination
Description: "From the internationally acclaimed director of S-21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine, a survivor's autobiography that confronts the evils of the Khmer Rouge dictatorship. Rithy Panh was only eleven years old when the Khmer Rouge expelled his family from Phnom Penh in 1975. In the months and years that followed, his entire family was executed, starved, or worked to death. Thirty years later, after having become a respected filmmaker, Rithy Panh decides to question one of the men principally responsible for the genocide, Comrade Duch, who's neither an ordinary person nor a demon--he's an educated organizer, a slaughterer who talks, forgets, lies, explains, and works on his legacy. This confrontation unfolds into an exceptional narrative of human history and an examination of the nature of evil. The Elimination stands among the essential works that document the immense tragedies of the twentieth century, with Primo Levi's If This Is a Man and Elie Wiesel's Night"--
Notes: "Originally published in French as L'élimination by Éditions Grasset & Fasquelle"--T.p. verso.

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