Cambodian Apocalypse
Publisher
:
Jean Picollec
Parution date
:
2003
EAN
:
9782864771883
Description
Somanos Sar was only ten years old when the Khmer Rouge came to power in 1975. By the end of the regime, approximately 1,700,000 Cambodians were victims of its brutality. Living in a small Cambodian village surrounded by a loving family, Sar witnessed his idyllic environment transformed into what he calls a “paradise too close to hell.” From 1975-1979, constantly uprooted by the mandates of Angkar, the organization charged with “re-educating” the Cambodian population, he endured four harrowing years under Pol Pot’s communist government. Sar recounts in vivid detail his family’s daily life in the series of mandatory labor camps it was forced to attend: the intimate moments, backbreaking work, starvation, loss of loved ones, and summary executions. Acopalypse Khmère is not only a rare testimony of these horrors, but also a guided journey, accompanied by the author’s unique maps, which traces his incredible route through an apocalyptic Cambodia.
Author
Somanos Sar : Born in Phnom Penh in 1965, Somanos Sar emigrated to France in 1982. This is his first book.
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