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Lost Executioner : A Journey to the Heart of the Killing Fields by Nic Dunlop (2006, Hardcover)
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In a real-life detective story, a journalist sets out to track down Comrade Duch, a man responsible for some of the worst atrocities of Cambodia's killing fields, who has never been held accountable for his part in the crimes of the Khmer Rouge. 40,000 first printing.
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Product Identifiers
PublisherWalker & Company
ISBN-100802714722
ISBN-139780802714725
eBay Product ID (ePID)47860242
Product Key Features
Book TitleLost Executioner : a Journey to the Heart of the Killing Fields
Number of Pages352 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2006
TopicAsia / Southeast Asia, Military / Vietnam War, General
IllustratorYes
GenreHistory
AuthorNic Dunlop
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.3 in
Item Weight18.9 Oz
Item Length8.6 in
Item Width5.7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2005-056365
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Edition22
Dewey Decimal959.604/2
SynopsisIn a haunting blend of history and testimony, photographer Nic Dunlop returns to the killing fields of Cambodia to tell the story of Khmer Rouge revolutionary Comrade Duch.
LC Classification NumberDS554.8.D86 2006
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- 05 Jul, 2016
"The Lost Executioner" -- A True Historical Account of Duch, Commandant of S-21
I got interested to read Nic Dunlop's "The Lost Executioner" because I had heard the United Kingdom-based Australian journalist, John Pilger, say that S-21 was the "Auschwitz in Asia" in the documentary, "Year Zero". In "The Lost Executioner", British photographer Dunlop gives a clear account of how he found and interviewed Duch (pronounced "Doik") or Kaing Guek Eav in 1999. Duch was the commandant of S-21, the secret extermination "camp" where about twenty thousand men, women and children, mostly innocent, were photographed, tortured, starved and executed under Pol Pot's rule of Cambodia from 17 April 1975 to 7 January 1979. "The Lost Executioner" reveals part of the shocking history of Cambodia when the Khmer Rouge conquered the country. At that time, Pol Pot turned Cambodia into his Communist agrarian utopia, where there were no hospitals, medicines, schools, books, banks, money, wages, holidays, music, leisure activities, religions, human emotions and Western influences. Pol Pot, like Hitler, kept his atrocities in Cambodia a secret from the world, until Vietnam invaded Cambodia in retaliation to Pol sending his Khmer Rouge troops to massacre over 3 000 villagers in Vietnam as he wanted to reclaim Cambodia lands captured by Vietnam in the ancient past. When the Vietnamese forces were in Phnom Penh, an extremely strong and formidable stench led them to highly decomposed corpses of prisoners left in S-21, and thence, to the meticulous prisoners' files, documents and photographs kept in the S-21 premises. Duch was Pol Pot's chief executioner. Suspect Cambodians, who were considered traitors or political enemies, were arbitrarily arrested and sent blindfolded to S-21, where they were tortured for a week to six months by Duch and his "team" to confess to "crimes" such as spying for the CIA, KGB and Vietnamese. Each prisoner who confessed was usually put to death by receiving a fatal blow to his head with a long metal pole and then getting his throat slit, thus, saving on ammunition. Most dead prisoners were dumped in the infamous "killing fields". Today, S-21 is a museum. If one visits it, one can see many photographs of prisoners there. Amongst the photographs, one is that of a twenty-five-year-old Briton, John Dawson Dewhurst. Dunlop explains why Dewhurst was killed at S-21 in 1978 after he had been captured and arrested by the Khmer Rouge in the Gulf of Thailand while holidaying on a boat with two friends, a Canadian and a New Zealander. The three were to sail to Bangkok from Peninsular Malaysia, but instead, they ended up in Cambodian waters, where the Khmer Rouge shot dead the Canadian, and took Dewhurst and the New Zealander to S-21. "The Lost Executioner" is a very good, interesting and thought-provoking book which gives a detailed and historical account of the clandestine workings of S-21 under Duch. The book reminds readers the sad fact that history unfortunately does repeat itself, in this case, what Hitler did in World War Two happened again when Pol Pot ruled Cambodia for three years, eight months and twenty days. The similarities in Hitler's and Pol Pot's creation of a unique utopia and the subsequent callous mass killing of innocent people to achieve that utopia are both uncanny and frightening. Massive deaths and destruction always seem to follow whenever an exceptionally cruel leader, devoid of human conscience and feelings, seizes power in a country.Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
