«A los trece anos -dice Rithy Panh-, perdi a toda mi familia en pocas semanas... Todos ellos barridos por la crueldad y la locura de los jemeres rojos. Me quede sin familia. Me quede sin nombre. Me quede sin rostro. Y fue asi como segui con vida, porque me habia quedado sin nada.» Treinta anos despues del fin del regimen de Pol Pot, que causo la muerte de 1.7 millones de personas, el nino se ha convertido en un cineasta de prestigio. Decide entrevistar a uno de los grandes responsables de ese genocidio: Duch. La eliminacion es el relato de esta confrontacion fuera de lo comun. Un gran libro que ha recibido el Premio Joseph Kessel, el Grand Prix de SGDL de lEssai, el Premio Essai France Televisions y el Premio Aujourdhui.LExpress. / When I was thirteen years old says Rithy Panh, I lost my entire family in a matter of weeks They were all swept away by cruelty and the madness of the Khmer Rouge. I was left without a name. I was left without a face. And in this way I got on with my life, because I had been left with nothing. Thirty years after the end of Pol Pots regime, which was responsible for the deaths of 1.7 million people, this child has become a prestigious film maker. He decides to interview one of the men responsible for this genocide: Duch. The Elimination is the story of this unusual confrontation. This great book has won the Joseph Kessel Prize, the Grand Prix of SGDL de LÉssai, the Essai France Télévision Prize and the Aujourd´hui Prize. In the same vein as Primo Levi and Solzhenitsyn, the French-Cambodian film maker Rithy Panh has published an exceptional testimony (Jean Christophe Buisson, Le Figaro). A great book. A seminal testimony (F. Busnel, LExpress).