After the Killing Fields: Lessons from the Cambodian GenocideBloomsbury Academic, 2005 M03 30 - 256 pages For 25 years, Cambodia's Khmer Rouge have avoided responsibility for their crimes against humanity. For 30 long years, from the late 1960s to the late 1990s, the Cambodian people suffered from a war that has no name. Arguing that this series of hostilities, which included both civil and external war, amounted to one long conflict—The Thirty Years War—Craig Etcheson demonstrates that there was one constant, churning presence that drove that conflict: the Khmer Rouge. New findings demonstrate that the death toll was approximately 2.2 million people—about half a million more than commonly believed. Detailing the struggle of coming to terms with what happened in Cambodia, Etcheson concludes that real justice is not merely elusive but may, in fact, be impossible for crimes on the scale of genocide. |
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... According to several estimates , 80 percent of these workers contracted malaria , and of those , up to 5 percent succumbed to the disease.33 According to the plan , only draft - age males 17-45 were supposed to be liable to recruitment ...
... According to a central level document , " A " groups are recruited from among people of high stand- ing such as professors , monks , medical practitioners and " persons with in- fluence among the ranks of the popular masses . ' 64 9963 ...
... According to Kiernan , Sin So was purged by Southwest Zone forces loyal to Pol Pot in March 1977 , presumably indicating that he had failed to maintain Pol Pot's confidence.12 However , in a confession extracted at the S - 21 prison ...
Contents
A Desperate Time | 13 |
After the Peace | 39 |
Documenting Mass Murder | 53 |
Copyright | |
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