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Record Nr.

UNINA9910828958103321

Autore

Chandler David P (David Porter), <1933->

Titolo

Voices from S-21 [[electronic resource] ] : terror and history in Pol Pot's secret prison

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, 1999

ISBN

0-520-92455-X

1-59734-982-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (271 p.)

Disciplina

303.6/09596

959.604

Soggetti

Genocide

Political persecution

Political prisoners

Political prisoners - Cambodia

Torture

Torture-- Cambodia

Torture - Cambodia

Political persecution - Cambodia

Genocide - Cambodia

Cambodia Politics and government 1975-1979

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminaries; Contents; Preface; 1. Discovering S-21; 2. S-21: A Total Institution; 3. Choosing the Enemies; 4. Framing the Questions; 5. Forcing the Answers; 6. Explaining S-21; Appendix. Siet Chhe's Denial of Incest; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The horrific torture and execution of hundreds of thousands of Cambodians by Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge during the 1970's 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.