Word: vengefulness
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...Gate, the memoirs of Fran?ois Bizot, a French scholar of Cambodian Buddhism who plausibly claims to be the only Westerner released from a Khmer Rouge prison?a jungle hellhole called Anlong Veng?now delivers a cruel, irrefutable indictment. The book is at once a major historical document, informed by a thoughtful analysis of the human response to suffering and death, and an exhilarating war narrative...
...proud "to kill Vietnamese" in the war to end the occupation of his country, but after Hanoi finally withdrew its troops in 1989, he longed for an end to the fighting. His wife and three children, however, were kept as virtual hostages in the Khmer Rouge stronghold of Anlong Veng, close to the Thai border, and he had little choice but to stay with the guerrilla army in its fight against the Phnom Penh government. "Life was very hard," See says. "All that time in the jungle, I regret...
Three weeks ago, See and his family were awakened by the sound of gunfire--but the shots were coming from the north, inside Anlong Veng, and not from the south, where he knew government troops had their front lines. A mutiny had split the ranks of the Khmer Rouge, and See and his family, along with thousands of other inhabitants of the village, fled south, where they found government trucks waiting to drive them to safety. "People were shouting, 'If you move south, you will live--if you move north, you will...
Last year a power struggle in the leadership in Anlong Veng led to the arrest and show trial of Pol Pot, but he was replaced by Ta Mok, another hard-liner impervious to change. Mok, a one-legged man known widely as "the Butcher," resisted the March 24 mutiny, and by last week he had clawed back some territory in Anlong Veng. But with the Khmer Rouge's having lost so many civilians, observers say, it is just a matter of time before its final rump--estimated at 500 to 1,000 soldiers--is dissolved. "Ta Mok has painted himself...
...been a mystery, with reported live sightings as recently as last June, plus ransom hoaxes and all the usual false leads attached to a Westerner's missing in Indochina. But Ke Pauk and Yim Panna, two senior Khmer Rouge leaders who had been instrumental in organizing the Anlong Veng mutiny, told TIME in separate interviews that both men were in fact killed shortly after their capture. Howes was moved to Anlong Veng, where he was taken out to a field and shot in the back by a man named Bao on the orders of a close aide...