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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... Eastern . Zone forces.2 This chapter examines human rights abuses in one region of the East- ern Zone during the period when the zone was under So Phim's control and compares that to the human rights situation in the Eastern Zone after ...
... Eastern Zone regions along the border with Vietnam . RECONSIDERING THE VIEWS OF KIERNAN AND LOCARD Kiernan's conclusion that a large - scale execution of prisoners did not occur before late 1976 in the Eastern Zone cannot be sustained ...
... Eastern Zone and at regions in other zones - such as the west , the northwest , and the north — is required to resolve this uncertainty.45 Despite these remaining uncertainties , the evidence presented in this chapter affords insight ...
Contents
A Desperate Time | 13 |
After the Peace | 39 |
Documenting Mass Murder | 53 |
Copyright | |
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