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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... Khmer Rouge regime came to power.12 They acted accordingly , with Vietnam on the re- ceiving end of repeated atrocities.13 In time , Khmer Rouge attacks against civilian villages in Vietnam became intolerable , and Vietnam resolved that ...
... Khmer Rouge regime was really that much better than the Khmer Rouge themselves.1 As noted in Chapter 2 , a large part of the reason that this question has en- dured arises from the fact that so many of the key leaders of the new gov ...
... Khmer Rouge regime . In some cases , however— quite tastelessly , one has to say - Khmer Rouge execution facilities were salvaged and pressed into service as the local headquarters for the ruling party in the wake of the Pol Pot regime ...
Contents
A Desperate Time | 13 |
After the Peace | 39 |
Documenting Mass Murder | 53 |
Copyright | |
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