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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... Pol Pot legal order in Cambodia . It formally established the " People's Revolutionary Tribunal at Phnom Penh to Try the Pol Pot - leng Sary Clique for the Crime of Genocide . " The law mandated a tribunal that would judge just two ...
... Pol Pot and the second the code for Pol Pot's central office . Thus , Ieng Sary's assertions regarding the command structure for internal security in Democratic Kampuchea were entirely consistent with independently verified primary ...
... Pol Pot's forces in Region 23. Pol Pot's policy appears to have evolved toward the anni- hilation of all living persons in Region 23 , the ultimate indicia of state ter- ror . By the same token , Locard is correct in that the levels of ...
Contents
A Desperate Time | 13 |
After the Peace | 39 |
Documenting Mass Murder | 53 |
Copyright | |
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