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Send CORPSE WATCHING to the War Criminal of Your Choice

CORPSE WATCHING by Sarith Peou details Peou's experiences under the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia.

TINFISH editor Susan Schultz decided to send a copy to former Secretary of State and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Henry Kissinger, whose actions were largely responsible for the Khmer Rouge's coming to power in 1975.

TINFISH wants everyone to have this chance to send this gift to their favorite war criminal. Send $10 (discounted from $12) and we will send a copy of the book to the war criminal of your choice with a personalized card to say who's responsible for sending it along. There are no shortages of war criminals—choose one or more. If at all possible, please track down their addresses for us. Please send check and address to:
Susan M. Schultz, Editor
Tinfish Press
47-728 Hui Kelu Street #9
Kane`ohe, HI 96744

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Excerpt from
C O R P S E _ W A T C H I N G
by Sarith Peou  • 2007   $12
Forward by Ed Bok Lee

Designed by Lian Litvin

from “My Sister Ranchana”:

Mee was the name of the cadre who mistreated Rachany.
I named my new dog Mee.
I abused that dog.
I killed and ate it.
A few months later
Mee died from delivery complications.
I thought my curse had worked.
Now I feel guilty for misplacing my anger on my
poor dog.

Born in 1962, Sarith Peou is a survivor of the Khmer Rouge genocide (1975-1979) in which more than one quarter of the Cambodian population was killed. In 1982, Sarith fled to a refugee camp in Thailand. In 1987, he resettled in southern California, and, in 1993, he moved to Minnesota. He is now serving prison time in Minnesota. While incarcerated, he converted to Christianity, and earned a GED and an Associate of Arts degree. He has dedicated his life to education, and moral and spiritual transformation within the prison. He is completing his autobiography, tentatively titled Prison Without Walls.

Ed Bok Lee is the author of Real Karaoke People, winner of the PEN/Beyond Margins Award and Asian American Literary Award (Members’ Choice Award).