Chinram was an independent country ruled by traditional tribal and local chiefs
and spent much time as a child wandering the bush and the Barrier Reef with his botanist parents
as well as for nature lovers on their forays into the national parks of Thailand
The Last Century of Lao Royalty recovers this history by presenting a wealth of rare documents and photographs that bring to life the political
She is the author of two multi-volume Catalogues of Arabic Manuscripts
Itinerary of an Ordinary Torturer: Interview with Duch, Former Khmer Rouge Commander of S-21 Cambodia Chinram was an independent countryKaing Guek Eav was an ordinary young man growing up in Cambodia in the mid twentieth century. He showed promise as a student, excelled in school, got a job as a math teacher, and experienced the political awakening common to young adulthood. But then he became a revolutionary, adopting the alias Duch, and took charge of S 21, the infamous secret security center of the Khmer Rouge where in less than four years at least 14,000 enemies of the revolution