The EliminationBy: Rithy Panh, Christophe Bataille From the internationally acclaimed director of S 21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine, a survivors breathtaking autobiography that grapples with the horrors of dictatorship and genocide, now with a new introduction. Rithy Panh was only thirteen years old when the Khmer Rouge expelled his family from Phnom Penh in 1975. In the months and years that followed, his entire family was executed, starved, or worked to death.