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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... Chapter 3 also draws on " Cambodia , the UN and the Aftermath , " which I presented in 1994 at the School of Oriental and African Studies , University of London , and the Center for Southeast Asian Studies , Free University of Berlin ...
... Chapter 8 , " The Per- sistence of Impunity , " is a revised version of a paper originally presented at the International Conference on Reining [ sic ] in Impunity for Interna- tional Crimes and Serious Violations of Fundamental Human ...
... chapter - documents from within the Khmer Rouge internal security bureaucracy - demonstrate graphically that the senior leadership of the Communist Party of Kampuchea was in control of a nationwide coercive apparatus designed to ...
Contents
A Desperate Time | 13 |
After the Peace | 39 |
Documenting Mass Murder | 53 |
Copyright | |
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