When the clouds fell from the sky : a daughter's search for her father in the killing fields of Cambodia
Carmichael, Robert, 1969-2019
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During the Khmer Rouge's four-year rule of terror, two million people, or one in every four Cambodians, died. In describing one family's decades-long quest to learn their husband's and father's fate and the war crimes trial of Comrade Duch (pronounced 'Doyk'), who ran the notorious S-21 prison in Phnom Penh, 'When the Clouds Fell from the Sky' illuminates the tragedy of a nation. In 2012, Duch was sentenced to life imprisonment, having been found responsible for the deaths of more than 12,000 people. He was the first Khmer Rouge member to be jailed for crimes committed during Pol Pot's catastrophic 1975-9 rule during which millions were executed or died from starvation, illness and overwork as Cambodia underwent the most radical social transformation ever attempted.
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Author:
Carmichael, Robert, 1969-, author
Imprint:
London : Robinson, 2019.
Collation:
xix, 337 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 24 cm
Notes:
Originally published: as When clouds fell from the sky. Bangkok: Asia Horizons Books, 2015.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781472143747 (hbk)
Dewey class:
959.6042092959.6042959.604
LC class:
DS554.83
Local class:
959.6042959.604
Language:
English
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BRN:
2508842
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