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Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 “So you’ve been to school for a year or two . . .”
2 “Do not kill any living creature, with the exception of the enemy.”
3 “The Angkar is more important to me than my father and mother.”
4 “The weapon of the mouth”
5 “Only the third person knows.”
6 “I am excellent survivor.”
7 “Am I a savage person?”
8 “She is nice girl, but she is sick.”
9 “I am no longer HIV positive.”
10 “I am not dead. I am alive.”
Conclusion: War Crimes Trials as a Welcome Distraction
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Index

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Faci ng Death i n Cambodia

Fac i n g D e at h i n C am b o d i a

P e t e r M ag u i r e

Columbia Unive rsity Press New York

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