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The Lost Executioner: The Story of Comrade Duch and the Khmer Rouge Kindle Edition

by Nic Dunlop (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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Between 1975 and 1979 the seemingly peaceful nation of Cambodia succumbed to one of the most bloodthirsty revolutions in modern history. Nearly two million people were killed. As head of the Khmer Rouge's secret police, Comrade Duch was responsible for the murder of more than 20,000 of them. Twenty years later, not one member of the Khmer Rouge had been held accountable for what had happened, and Comrade Duch had disappeared. Photographer Nic Dunlop became obsessed with the idea of finding Duch, and shedding 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 Dunlop's personal journey to the heart of the Khmer Rouge and his quest to find out what actually happened in Pol Pot's Cambodia and why.

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'In this haunting, elegant book, Nic Dunlop takes us into a poisonous era, and into the thought world of a idealistic mathematician who believed that his society would become pure when all of its enemies were killed. There are frightening lessons for all of us in these absorbing pages.' David Chandler, author of VOICES FROM S-21: TERROR AND HISTORY IN POL POT'S SECRET PRISON and BROTHER NUMBER ONE: A POLITICAL BIOGRPAHY OF POL POT

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Nic Dunlop was born in the Irish Republic in 1969. He attended the Central School of Art and Design in London before becoming a photographer in 1990. His work has appeared in numerous publications worldwide. In 1999, he was co-recipient of an award from the John Hopkins University for excellence in international Journalism for exposing the head of the Khmer Rouge Secret police, Comrade Duch. He lives in Bangkok.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B002ROKQMO
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Accessibility ‏ : ‎ Learn more
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ 20 July 2009
  • Edition ‏ : ‎ 1st
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1.5 MB
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 337 pages
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1408806210
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  • Best Sellers Rank: 88,966 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
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  • Amazon Customer
    5.0 out of 5 stars HAUNTING!
    Reviewed in Australia on 27 June 2016
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    A detailed and thought provoking research of a crime against humanity that so much of the world chose to ignore. The Lost Executioner leaves you dazed and wondering why the Cambodian tragedy happened
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  • Alex
    5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book
    Reviewed in Germany on 26 October 2020
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    This is a must read for anyone with an interest in Cambodian history and the suffering of its people.
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  • schroedl
    5.0 out of 5 stars Well written history of one aspect of this terrible time
    Reviewed in Canada on 17 November 2019
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    Fascinating history. My first book on the Cambodian massacre. I've given it to my friend who lived through this and he finds it a good book as well. Difficult history; he and his wife have terrible stories. I'll read more about this.
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  • mark l.
    5.0 out of 5 stars A Compelling and Analytical Account
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 June 2021
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    I’d anticipated that Nic Dunlop’s The Lost Executioner would be a more personal account with its primary emphasis placed upon the author’s own long search for Comrade Duch. Consistent with his profession as a photographer, however, Dunlop himself remains behind the lens and the focus very much remains upon the process by which the Khmer Rouge gained control of the Cambodian government with the intention of transforming it into a one-party totalitarian dictatorship. I’d previously read a number of vivid survivor accounts such as The Death and Life of Dith Pran (Schanberg, 1980) and Survival in the Killing Fields (Ngo, 1987). The Lost Executioner provides a worthy companion to each of these works and presents a lucid and accessible explanation of the historical and political context for what must surely rank among the most dreadful events in modern history.
    In his position of commandant of the notorious Tuol Sleng prison, Duch oversaw suffering and death on an industrial scale. He claims that this was a role in which he was trapped and that any hint of refusal or dissent would have consigned him to the same fate as the wretches who were broken there. Whilst this is undoubtedly true there is much to evidence Duch’s enthusiasm for the task and witnesses who dispute his claim not to have taken any personal part within torture and murder. Even so, what there is to distinguish Duch’s own psychopathy from those who surrounded him throughout those hellish times is difficult to determine. Unsurprising then, that the book builds toward no climactic encounter. Other than a reminder of the ultimate banality of evil, there is no denouement either - each the options available to Cambodia in respect of what it should do with Duch and his ilk having the potential to displease as many people as they satisfied.
    I regret not having read The Lost Executioner prior to my own visit to Tuol Sleng. Nevertheless, I feel indebted to Dunlop for the better, albeit retrospective, understanding that I now have of the dank rooms in which I stood and their grim significance in terms of the insanity that was Le Kampuchea Democratique. A young Cambodian man that my wife and I met during our first visit to that beautiful country told us that, whilst he knew much about the events of the disaster that befell his country, the motivation of those who had wrought it largely remained a mystery to him. He told us that nothing that he’d read or been told or had helped him in understanding what had informed a frenzy of killing in which over 20% of the country’s entire population had perished. I clearly recall my embarrassment at my lack of knowledge when, in earnest innocence, he asked us why it was that the West had perceived a Khmer Rouge-dominated collation as a legitimate government worthy of a seat in the United Nations and how it could possibly have been that the Khmer Rouge flag had fluttered among those of the other member states on the Manhattan skyline.
    If, prior to that meeting, I’d read The Lost Executioner I could have at least attempted a response and I would certainly have recommended to him this excellent book.
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  • judgeroybean
    4.0 out of 5 stars Servant of a Madman.
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 13 January 2015
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    Interesting account from Nic Dunlop of his search for the Chief Torturer of the Khmer Rouge, Comrade Duch, at one time a close friend of its leader, the insane Pol Pot whose sole aim in life appeared to be to drag Cambodia back a few centuries in time, to eradicate anyone and everyone who had the smittering of an education or who was a 'Professional Person', be they a teacher, lawyer, lecturer or indeed ANYONE deemed to have had or to be having what was seen and judged to be a 'priveleged life'.Comrade Duch himself came close to disappearing himself as the peiod of war was coming to an unlikely end.I have seen photographs - not in THIS book - of the thousands of human skulls displayed as both evidence and a reminder of this obscene period in Cambodias history during which some 2 million people died or were murdered. A must read.
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  • 04athens
    4.0 out of 5 stars AMAZING. AFTER A TRIP TO CAMBODIA WE COULDN'T READ ...
    Reviewed in Canada on 1 August 2015
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    AMAZING. AFTER A TRIP TO CAMBODIA WE COULDN'T READ ENOUGH STORIES ABOUT THE SITUATION.
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