 | Behind the Killing Fields: A Khmer Rouge Leader and One of His Victims Subjects: Noun Chea 1926–; Pol Pot; Sambath Thet; Political atrocities -- Cambodia; Genocide -- Cambodia; Cambodia -- History -- 1975–1979; Cambodia -- Politics and government -- 1975–1979; Parti communiste du Kampuchea; Based on exclusive interviews with the top surviving Khmer Rouge leader, Nuon Chea, this book tells the story of a man who began as an idealistic freedom fighter and wound up involved in one of the worst atrocities of the twentieth century, Cambodia's Killing Fields. Gina Chon is a reporter for the Wall Street Journal. Sambath Thet writes for the Phnom Penh Post. |
