SEVEN CANDIDATES FOR PROSECUTION: Accountability for the Crimes of the Khmer Rouge, Stephen Heder and Brian Tittemore (2004)
This study examines the responsibility of seven senior officials for their roles in developing and implementing the murderous policies of the Communist Party of Kampuchea (CPK), known to its enemies as the “Khmer Rouge”: Deputy Secretary of the CPK Central Committee Nuon Chea, who is implicated in devising and implementing the Party’s execution policies. Deputy […]
STILLED LIVES: Photographs of the Cambodian Genocide, Wynne Cougill with Pang Pivoine, Ra Chhayran, and Sim Sopheak (2004)
This book contains photographs and essays on the lives of 51 men and women, who joined the Khmer Rouge during the 1960s and 1970s. They were what the Khmer Rouge called “base people”: those from the peasant class who generally were treated less harshly than the “new people” (city dwellers and those associated with the […]
VOICES FROM S-21: Terror and History in Pol Pot’s Secret Prison – David Chandler Translated by Sour Bonsou (2003)
Historian Chandler examines the Khmer Rouge regime through S-21, a secret prison in Phnom Penh where over 14,000 people died and less than a dozen survived. Using archival materials and interviews with survivors, he traces the culture of obedience and its attendant dehumanization, which made it easier for the Khmer Rouge to torture and kill […]
THE KHMER ROUGE DIVISION 703: From Victory to Self-destruction, Huy Vannak (2003)
One of the most favored of the Khmer Rouge’s nine military divisions, Division 703 was composed of 5,000 to 6,000 peasants, primarily from Kandal province. At the end of 1975, its soldiers with “clean” backgrounds were given positions at Tuol Sleng (the central-level prison also known as S-21) or its branch office S-21D (Prey Sar […]
THE KHMER ROUGE DIVISION 703: From Victory to Self-Destruction – Vannak Huy (2003)
One of the most favored of the Khmer Rouge’s nine military divisions, Division 703 was composed of 5,000 to 6,000 peasants, primarily from Kandal province. At the end of 1975, its soldiers with “clean” backgrounds were given positions at Tuol Sleng (the central-level prison also known as S-21) or its branch office S-21D (Prey Sar […]
THE DIARY OF A YOUNG GIRL: Anne Frank Translated by Ser Sayana (2002)
First published in 1947, millions of people have read the diary of 13-year old Anne Frank. She and other members of her family hidin the back of an Amsterdam warehouse for two years in an attempt to escape detection by the Nazis. Anne Frank died in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in March 1945, three month […]
FIRST THEY KILLED MY FATHER: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers – Loung Ung Translated by Norng Lina (2002)
In this book, Loung Ung tells the story of her life under the Khmer Rouge. When she was five years old, she and her family were forced to leave their comfortable life in Phnom Penh when the Khmer Rouge took control of the country. Ms. Ung was trained as a child soldier, while her other […]
OUKOUBAH: Justice for the Cham Muslims under Democratic Kampuchea Regime, Ysa Osman (2002)
This monograph explores the genocide of the Cham ethnic group, making a case that the Cham, who are Muslims, were killed a rate that was nearly double to triple that of the general Cambodian population during the Democratic Kampuchea regime. It provides evidence showing that the Cham comprised 10% of Cambodia’s population prior to 1975 […]
VICTIMS AND PERPETRATORS: The Testimony of Young Khmer Rouge Cadres, Ea Meng-Try and Sim Sorya (2001)
In Democratic Kampuchea’s Region 31, the Khmer Rouge recruited children to serve as guards, “catchers,” and animal husbandry workers in Tuol Sleng Prison (S-21). This monograph explores how these and other Cambodian youth were forced to become Khmer Rouge cadres, how they were indoctrinated in the ideology of Democratic Kampuchea, how they were affected, and […]