“Where were you tortured, and when?”
It was an unremarkable question at a trial whose raw material was cruelty and suffering, during four years of brutal rule in Cambodia by Khmer Rouge fanatics.
Was the witness whipped, beaten, waterboarded, suffocated in a plastic bag? Did his torturer poke a stick into his wounds, were his toenails pulled out, were electric wires attached to his ears?
In full: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/30/reader-center/khmer-rouge-genocide-trial.html
