Further Reading - Hun Sen's Cambodia - page 297

the Khmer Rouge Revolution (New York, 1998), which includes Becker's memorable ac-
count of her visit to Cambodia and meeting with Pol Pot in late 1978. On Pol Pot's life,
see Chandler, Brother Number One: A Political Biography of Pol Pot (Boulder, 1999).
This can be read profitably alongside Philip Short's Pol Pot: Anatomy of a Nightmare
(New York, 2004), which benefited from the opening of former Khmer Rouge zones in
the late 1990s, and draws on extensive interviews with former members of the regime.
For a view of Democratic Kampuchea from the one-eyed perspective of a radical
Western sympathizer, see Kampuchea: A Photo Record of the First American Visit since
April 1975 (Chicago, 1979), the record of a group of US fellow-travelers who visited
DK in April 1978. Contrasting recollections from Gunnar Bergström's visit to Cambod-
ia, including a series of rare color photos, are included in Living Hell: Democratic Kam-
puchea, August 1978 (Phnom Penh, 2008).
In addition to studies by journalists and historians, dozens of Cambodian survivors
have written of their experiences under the Khmer Rouge. Among the best are U Sam
Oeur, Crossing Three Wildernesses: A Memoir (Minneapolis, 2005); Rithy Panh, The
Elimination , translated by John Cullen (New York, 2012), which formed the basis for his
Oscar-nominated 2013 film The Missing Picture ; and Haing S. Ngor with Roger Warner,
A Cambodian Odyssey (London, 1987), which tells the story of Haing S. Ngor, who sur-
vived the Khmer Rouge and then went on to depict the story of Dith Pran as an actor in
Roland Joffé's 1984 film The Killing Fields .
Another fascinating memoir is To the End of Hell: One Woman's Struggle to Survive
Cambodia's Khmer Rouge (London, 2007), written by Denise Affonço, a half-French,
half-Vietnamese woman who gave testimony at both the People's Revolutionary Tribunal
in 1979 and at the ECCC (Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia) in 2012.
Laurence Picq's Beyond the Horizon: Five Years with the Khmer Rouge (New York,
1989) tells the rare story of an idealistic French woman who spent the Khmer Rouge years
working in Ieng Sary's Foreign Ministry.
For an examination of S-21 prison, see Vann Nath, A Cambodian Prison Portrait: One
Year in the Khmer Rouge's S-21 (Bangkok, 1998). David Chandler's Voices from S-21:
Terror and History in Pol Pot's Secret Prison (Berkeley, 1999) is an exhaustive study of
S-21 which draws on the prison's archives. For more on Comrade Duch, the gaunt former
schoolteacher who ran the facility, see Nic Dunlop's The Lost Executioner: A Story of the
Khmer Rouge (London, 2005), which details the author's intriguing discovery of Duch in
the Cambodian countryside in 1999.
There are fewer studies of Cambodia after the collapse of the Pol Pot regime in 1979.
The most detailed is Evan Gottesman's After the Khmer Rouge: Inside the Politics of Na-
tion Building (New Haven, 2003), which draws on the PRK's voluminous archives to
produce a nuanced account of an impoverished country's internal dynamics during the