The Lost Executioner: A Story of the Khmer Rouge

The Lost Executioner: A Story of the Khmer Rouge
by Nic Dunlop

The Lost Executioner: A Story of the Khmer Rouge
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Author: Nic Dunlop
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Published)
Format: Bargain Price
Published: 2006-02-07
ISBN: N/A
Number of pages: 352
Publisher: Walker & Company

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Summary: 5 Stars

If you have ever wondered how it was possible for a Holocaust to take place in the late 20th century and have the rest of the world essentially ignore it, this is the book for you. If you believe that humanity is not still close to a tipping point of inconceivable proportion and savagery, maybe you should familiarize yourself with what happened in Cambodia in the last decades of the 20th century.

Nic Dunlop was a photographer stationed in Southeast Asia who began to dig into the history of the Khmer Rouge Revolution. His report here is extremely well-researched, horrifically compelling, and best of all conveys the complexity and ambiguity of human behavior in the throes of the group-think of a mass movement. There is a message in this for every human being. Read it.
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In Cambodia, between 1975 and 1979, nearly two million people died at the hands of the Khmer Rouge. As head of the Khmer Rouge secret police, Comrade Duch was responsible for the murder of more than 20,000 people considered enemies of the revolution. Twenty years later, not one member of the Khmer Rouge had been held accountable for what happened. Like so many others, Comrade Duch had disappeared. Over a decade of working in Cambodia, photographer Nic Dunlop became obsessed with the idea of finding Duch. As the commandant of "S-21" prison, Duch could shed light on a secret and brutal world that had been sealed off to outsiders. Then, by chance, he came face to face with him. The Lost Executioner describes a personal journey to the heart of the Khmer Rouge. It is an attempt to find out what actually happened in Pol Pot's Cambodia and why; to understand how a seemingly peaceful nation could give birth to one of the most bloodthirsty revolutions in modern history.

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