Kokrhání kohoutů, pláč psů – Tochman Wojciech (2022)

You watch as your relatives disappear. Your neighbors or acquaintances torture and murder them. The pretext can be anything. Then it all comes to an end. And now learn to live again with former guards and executioners. Welcome to Cambodia. Wojciech Tochman explores dark places in his reports. He did not venture to Bosnia, Rwanda, or Cambodia for sensationalism, but wanted to touch on what we fear, what lies deep within people. Pol Pot and his story attract attention, but what about a person chained to a crumbling shack? After all, who can lock their sick relative in a cage? Only an evil person. That is a simple answer. Tochman spent enough time in Cambodia, one of the poorest countries still threatened by natural disasters, to not seek simple answers. He accompanied psychiatrist Sody Ang, who tries to explain to families what truly troubles their sick relatives and to begin real treatment. Because so far, instead of treating psychoses, they are locked in cages or tied by the leg. Disturbed souls, such are the results of the Khmer Rouge's rampage. Cambodian society has disintegrated, lost mutual trust, and become entangled in a web of fear and superstition. Evil spirits – that is how Cambodians would describe it. When...