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...that those responsible for the madness were themselves human, albeit tragically flawed. In the first part of the book, Bizot's portrait of Ta Douch, his jailer at Anlong Veng, provides unique insight into the single-mindedness that is often the wellspring of genocide. Douch later presided over Tuol Sleng, the regime's most infamous prison, now a museum, in Phnom Penh. The horror of the tortures and murders committed there, the sheer accumulation of human gore, leads many contemporary visitors to conclude that it must have been the work of monsters. Yet in fact it was the work...
During the genocidal reign of Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot in the 1970s, 16,000 Cambodians were herded into Tuol Sleng prison. Only seven made it out, and just two of that group were still thought to be alive. But this month, a third Tuol Sleng survivor emerged. His name is Bo Meng, and he could provide key testimony against his former jailers if long-planned tribunals for the perpetrators of Cambodia's killing fields go forward. Last week, Bo, 61, told TIME how he endured 18 months in the death camp. His wife and children were killed...
...Cambodia and the U.N. are still haggling over tribunal ground rules, but it's unclear if trials will ever take place. For now, Bo has been commissioned by the Documentation Center of Cambodia to paint a scene of Tuol Sleng survivors receiving justice. He once painted his nightmare; now he paints his dream...
...Canada. "People tell me, 'Why do you want to look at these things? It's easier to forget.' But I want to understand why it happened"--he means the self-extermination of his country--"so it will never happen again." When Pol Pot died, Keo Lundi, from the Tuol Sleng center, says, "I spent my own money to go to his province, to talk to his brother and sister. I wanted to know what he was like as a child." What he found was that Pol Pot--born Saloth Sar--was a notably mild-mannered boy, pious and delicate...
...have mother!" On the map given to visitors who go to the local tourist center, the text boasts of Cambodia's "wonderful history" and its status as a "land of tolerance and of plenty." Visit the "Choeung Ek Genocidal Center," it urges brightly of the rural equivalent to Tuol Sleng, where executioners once beat babies' heads against trees, adding that Cambodia will be "an inexhaustible source of memories to each one of you." The main sight at the center is a 10-story-high shrine made up of skulls...