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François Bizot (born February 8, 1940 in Nancy, France) was the only Westerner to survive imprisonment by the Khmer Rouge.
Bizot arrived in Cambodia in 1965 to study Buddhism practiced in the countryside. He traveled extensively around Cambodia, researching the history and customs of its dominant religion. He speaks fluent Khmer, French and English and was married to a Cambodian. When the Vietnam War spilled into Cambodia, Bizot was employed at the Angkor Conservation Office, restoring ceramics and bronzes.

In 1971, on a routine outing through the Cambodian countryside, the young French ethnologist François Bizot was captured by the Khmer Rouge. Accused of being an agent of 'American imperialism', he was chained and imprisoned.

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META HOUSE  is organizing in cooperation with Konrad Adenauer Foundation on Monday,February 25 2008 at 7 PM a panel discussion  with succesfully Mr. Benny
Widyono, the author of DANCING IN SHADOWS.
The panel will take place at PSIS, Pannanastra International School, Street 370
# 18 A (near to Beoung Keng Kang market).

On this occasion, the book "DANCING IN SHADOWS" will be sold with a 15%discount.

About this book

Benny Widyono has written a lively, sometimes passionate and controversial hook from the perspective of a low Southeast Asian who was also a senior UN official through Cambodia's crucial post Cold War years. His account is rich in detail, from scenes of his own life and work in the devastated country to his insider ' s analyses of its troubled politics.

As a career UN official from Indonesia , Benny Widyono brings us the remarkable inside story of the UNTAC operations in Cambodia after the conclusion of the Paris Peace Agreements, as well as the intrigues, turmoil, and political upheavals of the first years of a reborn Cambodia . This book will be fascinating reading for anyone inter­ested in the often-tragic history of Cambodia and the history of big-power intervention in Southeast Asia .

Berns Widyono is ideally placed to assess the turbulent events in Cambodia between the UN-sponsored Paris Peace Accords of 1992 and the return to full electoral legitimacy of Hun Sen's Cambodian People ' s Party-led government in 1998. During most of those years, as personal representative oldie UN secretary-general, Widyono was at the center of Cambodia 's Machiavellian political scene. "