Ten Stories from the Killing F

In the 1970s, Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge army transformed Cambodia into a nationwide death camp in one of the most brutal periods of mass killing in modern history.

Cormack's fluency in the Khmer language, and his pastoral heart, meant people could talk with him openly, and recount their pain, struggle, hope as they survived these cruel years. The ten short stories in this book are 'powerful, riveting, compelling, even overwhelming'. And they are stories for our own times, as evil tyrants continue to emerge.

Cambodia, now best-known for Angkor Wat and tourism, saw unimaginable brutality in the 1970s. Where was God when Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge army turned its peaceful pastures into 'killing fields'? One-and-a-half-million people died.

Here we learn what happened, and glimpse profound spiritual truth through the lives, courage, faithfulness and deaths of a few Christian believers. Further, we read of how Comrade Duch, the 'Grand Inquisitor' himself became a Christian and was baptised.

These are stories for our own times, as evil tyrants continue to emerge. Think Putin, Assad, Kim Jong-un, the Ayatollahs....

Don Cormack served with OMF International in Malaysia, Taiwan, Cambodia, Thailand and Singapore from 1972-1996. After being forced to flee from Cambodia in 1975, he worked in the Cambodian refugee camps along the Thai/Cambodia border. In 1979 he married Margaret Lockhart at Chefoo School, who returned with him to the border camps. They then worked among heroin addicts in Singapore. In 1992, following the signing of the Paris Peace Accords, Don returned to Cambodia at the invitation of the Bishop of Singapore, to begin The Church of Christ our Peace. They have three adult daughters.

Julia E M Cameron has led Communications and Publishing endeavours for three global missions. Since retiring as Director of Publishing for the Lausanne Movement, she founded Dictum Press (dictumpress.com), based in Oxford UK. For 30 years she has written obituaries for 'The Times', 'The Independent' and 'The Telegraph' and she is a contributor to the 'Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'.