Survivor : the triumph of an ordinary man in the Khmer Rouge Genocide / (ระเบียนเลขที่ 101234)
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| 003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER | |
| control field | NALT |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
| control field | 20221227102938.0 |
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9789995060244 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | NALT |
| 050 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | DS 554.83 |
| Item number | C48S 2012 |
| 100 0# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| 9 (RLIN) | 59666 |
| Personal name | Chum, Mey |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Survivor : the triumph of an ordinary man in the Khmer Rouge Genocide / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | Chum Mey with documentation center of Cambodia; translation by Sim Sorya and Kimsroy Sokvisal. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | Phnom Penh : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Documentation Center of Cambodia, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2012. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 110 p. : |
| Other physical details | ill., table ; |
| Dimensions | 21 cm. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | "Chum Mey personifies the tormented history of his country, surviving gunfights and rocket attacks during a civil war, losing his wife and four children during the brutal Khmer Rouge regime, and dragged blindfolded into Tuol Sleng prison, where more than 12,000 people were chained and tortured and sent to a killing field. Only a handful survived, and Chum Mey's story provides a rare glimpse inside the workings of a brutal and highly organized assembly line of death. At least 1.7 million people died between 1975 and 1979 when the Khmer Rouge ruled Cambodia. It was his skill as a mechanic that saved him, when after 12 days and nights of beatings and repeated electrocution, he was plucked from among the other prisoners and put to work repairing the typewriters his torturers used to record their forced confessions. Chum Mey himself confessed to a wild fantasy of counter-revolutionary work for the CIA, an organization whose name he had never heard before his torture began. He was ready to say anything in order to stop the pain. His confession is one of the few that have been translated into English and it is reproduced in this book, the first of thousands of Tuol Sleng confessions to be published. Over the years Chum Mey has come to understand and even identify with his torturers, rather than to condemn them. "I consider them victims like me, because they had to follow other people's orders," he says in an introduction to the book. "How can I say I would have behaved differently? Would I have had the strength to refuse to kill, if the penalty was my own death?" He escaped death, but his survival itself continues to bewilder him. "It was such a rare chance that I survived when so many people were killed there," he says. "I think about it every night, how lucky I was to survive. Why did I survive?""-- Page [4] of cover |
| 600 14 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| 9 (RLIN) | 59666 |
| Personal name | Chum, Mey |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| 9 (RLIN) | 41903 |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Political atrocities |
| Geographic subdivision | Cambodia |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| 9 (RLIN) | 59683 |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Political prisoners |
| Geographic subdivision | Cambodia |
| General subdivision | Biography |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME | |
| 9 (RLIN) | 59682 |
| Geographic name | Cambodia |
| General subdivision | Politics and government |
| Chronological subdivision | 1975-1979 |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME | |
| 9 (RLIN) | 59684 |
| Geographic name | Cambodia |
| General subdivision | Law |
| Chronological subdivision | Human Rights |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME | |
| 9 (RLIN) | 41904 |
| Geographic name | Cambodia |
| General subdivision | History |
| Chronological subdivision | 1975-1979 |
| 850 ## - HOLDING INSTITUTION | |
| Holding institution | NALT |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | General Book |
| Source of classification or shelving scheme | Library of Congress Classification |
| 998 ## - STAFF NAME (NALT) | |
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| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Source of classification or shelving scheme | Damaged status | Not for loan | Collection code | Home library | Current library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| Library of Congress Classification | General Book collection | National Assembly Library of Thailand | National Assembly Library of Thailand | General Book shelves | 23/12/2022 | DS 554.83 C48S 2012 | 3961213416 | 12/01/2023 | 23/12/2022 | General Book |
