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Edité par Fourth Estate, NSW Australia, 2012
ISBN 10 : 0732290570ISBN 13 : 9780732290573
Vendeur : Adelaide Booksellers, Clarence Gardens, SA, Australie
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Trade Paperback. Reprint. Very Good condition. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 254 pages.
Edité par Fourth Estate, 2012
ISBN 10 : 0732290570ISBN 13 : 9780732290573
Vendeur : Book Express (NZ), Wellington, Nouvelle-Zélande
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Paperback. Etat : Very Good. 254 pages. An encounter with Duch, the most infamous mass-mur derer alive today, by the author of the internationally acclaimed THE GATE In 1971, 30-year-old ethnographer Francois Bizot was ca ptured by the Khmer Rouge and kept prisoner for three months in t he Cambodian jungle, accused of being a CIA spy. His captor, Comr ade Duch, eventually had him freed. It took Bizot decades to real ise he owed his life to a man who, later in the Killing Fields re gime, became one of Pol Pot's most infamous henchmen. As the head of the Tuol Sleng S-21 jail, Duch personally oversaw the detenti on, systematic torture and execution of thousands of detainees. D uch's trial as a war criminal began in March 2009 and Bizot was t he first witness to testify. In July 2010, Duch was sentenced to 35 years' imprisonment for the murder of an estimated 14,000 peop le. Unable to reconcile the young man who saved his life with the war criminal who terrorised and killed countless innocent people , Bizot attended Duch's trial and spent time with him in prison, trying to unearth whatever humanity Duch had left. If he was goin g to talk to anyone, it was Bizot, whom he still referred to as h is 'friend'.At once a personal essay, a historical and philosophi cal meditation, and an eye-witness account, FACING THE TORTURER w ill join a very short list of important books about man's persona l responsibility in collective crimes.