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At once a personal essay, a historical and philosophical meditation, and an eye-witness account, this title is about man's personal responsibility in collective crimes.
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In 1971, Francois Bizot was kept prisoner for three months in the Cambodian jungle, accused of being a CIA spy. His Khmer Rouge captor, Comrade Duch, eventually had him freed and it took Bizot decades to realize he owed his life to a man who, later in the Killing Fields regime, was to become one of Pol Pot's most infamous henchmen. As the head of the Tuol Sleng S-21 jail, Duch personally oversaw the detention, systematic torture and execution of more than 16,000 detainees.
Duch's trial as a war criminal ended in July 2010 amid a blaze of publicity. He was sentenced to a controversial 35 years imprisonment. In the tradition of Gitta Sereny, who sat with Speer in the Nuremberg trials, Bizot attended Duch's court case and spent time with him in prison, trying to unearth whatever humanity Duch had left.
'It would be all too easy,' says Bizot, 'if this man was a monster, not a member of the human race. We could use the slogan 'never again' and move on. But the deep horror is that this man is normal...Through his very qualities he became a mass murderer. Does that exonerate him from the crimes? Certainly not. But it does force us to question ourselves in a way that is deeply unsettling.'
At once a personal essay, a historical and philosophical meditation, and an eye-witness account, Facing the Torturer will join a very short list of important books about man's personal responsibility in collective crimes.
In 1971 the French ethnologist, François Bizot, was arrested in Cambodia by the Khmer Rouge. Imprisoned for three months and condemned to death, he was freed by the intervention of his jailer, a young revolutionary called Comrade Duch.
In 1988, while visiting the regime's infamous concentration camp, S-21, Bizot discovered that his 'liberator' had later been responsible for the death of many thousands of victims. In 2003, at Duch's trial for war crimes in Phnom Penh, Bizot dedicates his testimony to the memory of his murdered companions, and examines three pivotal issues: what takes place inside the mind of a torturer? How do we acknowledge - yet not condone - his crimes without laying them at the door of mankind itself? And how can we face Duch and those like him without seeing ourselves in the mirror?
Seeking answers, Bizot considers uncomfortable truths with a clarity that is often unnerving, whilst the beauty of his prose turns Facing The Torturer into an unparalleled investigation of the fundamental nature of our humanity.
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