Volume 55, Number 8 · May 15, 2008
In the Heart of Darkness
By Jonathan Mirsky
To the End of Hell: One Woman's Struggle to Survive Cambodia's Khmer Rouge
by Denise Affonço, translated from the French by Margaret Burn and Katie Hogben, with introductions by David Chandler and Jon Swain
London: Reportage Press, 165 pp., £15.99
In Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, the population in 1975 was about seven million; within three years 1.5 million Cambodians had been executed, starved to death, or died from exhaustion. 'No other country has ever lost so great a proportion of its nationals in a single, politically inspired hecatomb, brought about by its own leaders.'[1]
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