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Ka-Tzetnik 135633. The pseudonym of writer and poet Yehiel Dinur (1917–2001).
The pseudonym was derived from the German slang “KZ” (konzentrationslager, “concentration
camp”); the number was his Auschwitz registration number.
Dinur was born in Poland and active in the Orthodox Jewish community of Sosnowiec. In
1931, he published his first book of poems in Yiddish. After having survived two years in
Auschwitz, he emigrated to Palestine in 1945 and settled in Tel Aviv, later testifying at the
trial of Adolf Eichmann in 1961, where he dramatically collapsed. A writer of considerable
talent, he saw his “mission” as telling the story of what happened in the Holocaust on behalf
of those who did not survive. Among his more well known works are House of Dolls (1956),
Star of Ashes (1967), and Shiviti: A Vision (1989). His books have been translated into more
than twenty languages.
Ke Pauk (1933–2002). Ke Pauk, a longtime warlord in Cambodia, was the military
commander and deputy of the Northern Zone under the Khmer Rouge’s totalitarian and
genocidal rule of Kampuchea (1975–1979). He was considered by many to be one of the
most murderous of the Khmer Rouge leaders. He was a member of the Khmer Rouge’s
standing committee and the military commander who was possibly most responsible for
the mass purges carried out by the Khmer Rouge. He died in February 2002 of natural
causes, not having spent a single day in prison for his crimes.
Kemal, Ismail (Bey) (1844–1919). An official in the Ottoman Turkish regime during
the anti-Armenian persecutions of 1894–1896, and then in the Young Turk regime from
1909 onward. Ismail Kemal had a long career as an anti-Christian administrator, and the
main focus of his activities centered on the destruction of Armenian aspirations, and,
ultimately, lives. Among his major genocidal acts was organizing and overseeing the
massacre of Armenians at Yozgat, in northwestern Turkey, in 1915. On April 12, 1919,
after an Allied-convened trial in Constantinople, he was hanged in public. He was the
first person in history to be executed for having been found guilty on the charge of “crimes
against humanity.”
Kenney, George (b. 1958). George Kenney (b. 1958), an acting Yugoslav desk officer
within the U.S. State Department, resigned, on August 25, 1992, in protest over what he
considered the Bush administration’s (1988–1992) totally inadequate response to the crisis
in the former Yugoslavia. A front-page article in the Washington Post quoted the following
from his letter of resignation: “I can no longer in clear conscience support the Administration’s
ineffective, indeed counterproductive, handling of the Yugoslav crisis. . . . I am
therefore resigning in order to help develop a stronger public consensus that the U.S.
must act immediately to stop the genocide.”
Khang Khek Iev. See Comrade Duch.
Khieu Samphan (b. 1931). Born into an elite family in Svay Rieng province, Cambodia,
Khieu Samphan was a Khmer Rouge killer possessed of great longevity, and, as such, an
important figure in Cambodian political life during the second half of the twentieth century.
Like many other bright young Cambodians during the period of French colonialism,
Khieu won a government scholarship to study in France during the 1950s, leading, in his
case, to a doctoral degree in political economics. While studying, he was drawn to leftwing
student politics, becoming a founder and secretary-general of the Khmer Students’
Union. His connections with other Cambodian students Saloth Sar (1925–1998), who
later took the name Pol Pot, and Ieng Sary (b. c.1931), helped forge a radical relationship
that would come to fruition in the most devastating way in the 1970s. (Through marriage,