CONTENTS

Cover

Title Page

Prologue

Part I: Kaing Guek Eav

Chapter 1: ‘Better to destroy ten innocent people than let one enemy go free’

Chapter 2: The Burden of Angkor

Chapter 3: The Good Khmer Rouge

Chapter 4: ‘The tree grows in the rural areas, but the fruit goes to the towns’

Chapter 5: ‘Brother and sisters, go to the jungle and join the guerrillas’

Part II: Comrade Duch

Chapter 6: A Vision of a Better World

Chapter 7: Democratic Kampuchea

Chapter 8: The Perfect Institution

Chapter 9: The Interrogators’ Manual

Chapter 10: A City with No People

Chapter 11: The Photographer

Chapter 12: The Last Joint Plan

Chapter 13: Feeding the Guilty

Chapter 14: My Enemy’s Enemy Is My Friend

Part III: Hang Pin

Chapter 15: The Return of the Khmer Rouge

Chapter 16: ‘Policies and Practices of the Recent Past’

Chapter 17: Salvation

Chapter 18: The Humanitarian

Chapter 19: The Confession

Chapter 20: The Quest for Justice

Chapter 21: Living with the Past

Chapter 22: Lessons from an Empty Schoolhouse

Bibliography/Notes on Sources

Glossary

A Note on the Author

Imprint

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The photograph of Comrade Duch as Commandant of S-21 that the author carried around in his back pocket, leading him to Duch in 1999 (Courtesy Tuol Sleng Museum)