Tag Archives for genocide
04Jun2012
The Village Where Time Just Stopped
Up in the Chouf, the mountains that are home to Lebanon’s biggest nature reserve, a whirl of cedars, cypresses, golden broom and wildflowers, we make our way by a route most charitably described as circuitous to the village of Maaser al Chouf. Our guesthouse is beautiful, a nineteenth-century stone house with cool, expansive, barrel-vaulted rooms [...]
13Feb2010
S-21: Genocide for Beginners
“Kneel down, mum,” Z says. “Close your eyes.” He fumbles with my hair. We are in the courtyard of Tuol Sleng prison, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, AKA S-21, where teenage true believers tortured and killed over 16,000 people, from babies to geriatrics. On a concrete bench under a papaya tree a crimson-clad monk sits contemplating, Nokia [...]
