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The Elimination: A Survivor of the Khmer Rouge Confronts his Past and the Commandant of the Killing Fields - Softcover
From 1975 to 1979 Kang Kek Iew, better known as 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 Pol Pot's Communist regime. After his film S21, which brought survivors and executioners from the Khmer Rouge era together, Rithy Panh decided to film Duch, now a convicted war criminal, in prison. During 300 hours of filming he confronts the man in charge of the campaign of extermination, tries to understand his personal history, his ideology, his methods. He talks to him about how he recruited his torturers, but also about his passion for numbers, for order.
The process of confronting Duch every day - his cruelty, his evasions, his laugh - draws Rithy Panh back to the past and the horrors of the Khmer Rouge era. Exhausted and despairing, he decides to tell his own story and that of his family. Against the evil of Duch he holds up the good embodied in the person of his own father, who believed in and fought for justice and education, and who perished in the Khmer Rouge genocide.
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This is a great text, humble in tone and with universal import (Le Monde)
In the tradition of a Primo Levi or a Solzhenitsyn, the Franco-Cambodian cinéaste Rithy Panh has published an exceptional testimony (Le Figaro)
An exceptional document of Primo Levi's caliber ... Rithy Panh's book, The Elimination, through its strength, the starkness of its language, and the depths of its mystery, shows its significance (Elle)
An incredibly powerful book. A book? More like a punch in the stomach! ... It is also a book with caustic intelligence, the slow deconstruction of a mad system (La Libération)
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In the tradition of a Primo Levi or a Solzhenitsyn, the Franco-Cambodian cinéaste Rithy Panh has published an exceptional testimony (Le Figaro)
An exceptional document of Primo Levi's caliber ... Rithy Panh's book, The Elimination, through its strength, the starkness of its language, and the depths of its mystery, shows its significance (Elle)
An incredibly powerful book. A book? More like a punch in the stomach! ... It is also a book with caustic intelligence, the slow deconstruction of a mad system (La Libération)
An eye witness account of one of the darkest episodes of the late twentieth century, the era of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia.
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- PublisherClerkenwell Press
- Publication date2014
- ISBN 10 1846689317
- ISBN 13 9781846689314
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages288
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