Francois Bizot: 4 books

In 1971 a young French ethnologist named Francois Bizot was taken prisoner by forces of the Khmer Rouge who kept him chained in a jungle camp for months before releasing him. Four years later Bizot became the intermediary between the now victorious Khmer Rouge and the occupants of the besieged French...

The author of the acclaimed memoir The Gate now gives us a mesmerizing account of his personal relationship with one of the most infamous torturers of the twentieth century, and of his transformative experience observing and participating in that man’s recent trial for war crimes. In 1971,...

Prolongeant "Le portail", F. Bizot revient sur la figure de Douch, le lieutenant de Pol Pot qui le fit emprisonner puis le libéra pour des raisons qui restent mystérieuses pour lui. A l'occasion du procès de l'un des plus effroyables bourreaux du XXe siècle, il donne ici son témoignage. 1971....

François Bizot, membre de l'École française d'Extrême-Orient, est fait prisonnier au Cambodge par les Khmers rouges, en 1971. Enchaîné, il passe trois mois dans un camp de maquisards. Chaque jour, il est interrogé par l'un des plus grands bourreaux du vingtième siècle, futur responsable de...