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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... Region 23 , I can identify at least five and possibly six different Khmer Rouge officials who occupied the post of region chair or region secretary at various points . Three of these held this post over the course of the De- mocratic ...
... Region 23. Of these , twenty - six were the locations of Khmer Rouge detention , interrogation , and torture facilities , hereafter re- ferred to as prisons . In addition , we have identified at least sixteen sites in Region 23 that ...
... Region 23 , are also not inconsistent with those data . It is clear that many communes in Region 23 did contain Khmer Rouge detention and interrogation facilities and that most of these prisons were in operation well before 1978 , when ...
Contents
A Desperate Time | 13 |
After the Peace | 39 |
Documenting Mass Murder | 53 |
Copyright | |
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