The Elimination: A Survivor of the Khmer Rouge Confronts His Past and the Commandant of the Killing Fields by Rithy Panh is a hard-hitting look at the Cambodian genocide. Pahn was a teenager when the Khmer Rouge took power, and is now a documentary filmmaker. This powerful work examines his time in camps, his suffering, the death of nearly all of his family, and then after – as he dedicates his life to creating films about the genocide. This book is a corollary to those films, but also stands brilliantly alone.
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