Voices from S-21: terror and history in Pol Pot's secret prison

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Discovering S-21 -- 2. S-21: A Total Institution -- 3. Choosing the Enemies -- 4. Framing the Questions -- 5. Forcing the Answers -- 6. Explaining S-21 -- APPENDIX. Siet Chhe's Denial of Incest -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

The horrific torture and execution of hundreds of thousands of Cambodians by Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge during the 1970s is one of the century's major human disasters. David Chandler, a world-renowned historian of Cambodia, examines the Khmer Rouge phenomenon by focusing on one of its key institutions, the secret prison outside Phnom Penh known by the code name "S-21