Survivor. The Triumph of an Ordinary Man in the Khmer Rouge Genocide

Mey, Chum, with Documentation Center of Cambodia

ISBN 10: 9995060248 / ISBN 13: 9789995060244

Published by (Phnom Penh: Documentation Center of Cambodia, 2012) 9789995060244, 2012

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Signed by the author on the title page. 212 x 142 mm; pictorial wrappers; pp. 108; photographs; artwork. Small hand-stamp to title page. Very good condition. "CHUM MEY personifies the tormented history of his country, surviving gunfights and rocket attacks during a civil war, losing his wife and four children during the brutal Khmer Rouge regime, and dragged blindfolded into Tuol Sleng prison, where more than 12,000 people were chained and tortured and sent to a killing field. Only a handful survived, and Chum Mey's story provides a rare glimpse inside the workings of a brutal and highly organized assembly line of death. At least 1.7 million people died between 1975 and 1979 when the Khmer Rouge ruled Cambodia. It was his skill as a mechanic that saved him, when after 12 days and nights of beatings and repeated electrocution, he was plucked from among the other prisoners and put to work repairing the typewriters his torturers used to record their forced confessions.".

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Survivor. The Triumph of an Ordinary Man in the Khmer Rouge Genocide
• Publisher: (Phnom Penh: Documentation Center of Cambodia, 2012) 9789995060244
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9995060248
• ISBN 13: 9789995060244
• Binding: Soft cover
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

108 pages : some coloured illustrations and portraits ; 22 cm. Contents: His life story -- Postscript at the Khmer Rouge Tribunal -- Fact sheet on "S-21" Tuol Sleng Prison -- (Khmer) spelling -- Chum Mey's confession / with introduction by David Chandler and Youk Chhang. Series Title: Documentation series (Documentation Center of Cambodia), no. 18.