In January 1979, Vietnamese troops captured the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh at the end of their two-year war against Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge. As Vietnamese troops entered the city, they came upon the grounds of a former high school where they discovered several recently murdered men and a voluminous, hastily abandoned archive. They had stumbled across one of the most secret and horrifying institutions in Pol Pot's Cambodia - a prison code-named S-21, where in less than four years, 14,000 men, women and children were ...
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In January 1979, Vietnamese troops captured the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh at the end of their two-year war against Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge. As Vietnamese troops entered the city, they came upon the grounds of a former high school where they discovered several recently murdered men and a voluminous, hastily abandoned archive. They had stumbled across one of the most secret and horrifying institutions in Pol Pot's Cambodia - a prison code-named S-21, where in less than four years, 14,000 men, women and children were incarcerated, tortured and killed by the Khmer Rouge in a demented effort to cleanse the country of its political enemies. Only seven prisoners who entered S-21 emerged alive. During incarceration, prisoners were forced, often under brutal torture, to document elaborate, counter-revolutionary crimes they were told they had committed. The S-21 archives hold more than 4000 of these confessions, as well as stacks of administrative records documenting daily life, interrogations and torture. David Chandler supplements analysis of these documents with interviews of survivors and former workers to bring to life the story of a people consumed in the a course of auto-genocide. He explores how S-21 could happen and compares its rationale and techniques to those of such horrific 20th-century phenomena as the Moscow Show Trials, Argentina's "Dirty War" in the 1970s and the Holocaust, sorting out what was Cambodian, what was Communist and what was universal.
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Berkeley. 1999. University Of California Press. 1st Paperback Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 0520222474. A Philip E. Lilienthal Book in Asian Studies. 251 pages. paperback. keywords: History Cambodia. FROM THE PUBLISHER-The horrific torture and execution of hundreds of thousands of Cambodians by Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge during the 1970s is one of the century's major human disasters. David Chandler, a world-renowned historian of Cambodia, examines the Khmer Rouge phenomenon by focusing on one of its key institutions, the secret prison outside Phnom Penh known by the code name ‘S-21. ' The facility was an interrogation center where more than 14, 000 ‘enemies' were questioned, tortured, and made to confess to counterrevolutionary crimes. Fewer than a dozen prisoners left S-21 alive. During the Democratic Kampuchea (DK) era, the existence of S-21 was known only to those inside it and a few high-ranking Khmer Rouge officials. When invading Vietnamese troops discovered the prison in 1979, murdered bodies lay strewn about and instruments of torture were still in place. An extensive archive containing photographs of victims, cadre notebooks, and DK publications was also found. Chandler utilizes evidence from the S-21 archive as well as materials that have surfaced elsewhere in Phnom Penh. He also interviews survivors of S-21 and former workers from the prison. Documenting the violence and terror that took place within S-21 is only part of Chandler's story. Equally important is his attempt to understand what happened there in terms that might be useful to survivors, historians, and the rest of us. Chandler discusses the ‘culture of obedience' and its attendant dehumanization, citing parallels between the Khmer Rouge executions and the Moscow Show Trails of the 1930s, Nazi genocide, Indonesian massacres in 1965-66, the Argentine military's use of torture in the 1970s, and the recent mass killings in Bosnia and Rwanda. In each of these instances, Chandler shows how turning victims into ‘others' in a manner that was systematically devaluing and racialist made it easier to mistreat and kill them. More than a chronicle of Khmer Rouge barbarism, Voices from S-21 is also a judicious examination of the psychological dimensions of state-sponsored terrorism that conditions human beings to commit acts of unspeakable brutality. inventory #35078.
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