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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... Royal Army one month earlier . It was a humiliating defeat for the government , a defeat predicted by the king , who worried that it could lead to the collapse of the Royal Government . Indeed , the defeat at Pailin quickly turned into ...
... Royal Government permitted the Khmer Rouge to join the governing coalition without the Khmer Rouge first agreeing to disarm and surrender control over their zones , the government feared this might well eventually lead to a Khmer Rouge ...
... Royal Government has appeared to be in no big hurry to resolve the Khmer Rouge tribunal issue , notwithstanding regular statements by sen- ior Royal Government officials calling for the prompt convening of the tribunal.1 Additional ...
Contents
A Desperate Time | 13 |
After the Peace | 39 |
Documenting Mass Murder | 53 |
Copyright | |
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