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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... appears that there may have been at least an approximation of this system of organization , given the high density of prisons in the region . Even barring the unlikely situation that no additional sites remain to be discovered , this ...
... appears that a " connection with Vietnam ” became defined as anyone who lived in Eastern Zone regions along the border with Vietnam . RECONSIDERING THE VIEWS OF KIERNAN AND LOCARD Kiernan's conclusion that a large - scale execution of ...
... appears to have been a Khmer Rouge method to execute large numbers of people easily and cheaply . Even so , those instances are not recorded in the mass grave data as executions per se unless the starva- tion occurred in prison , since ...
Contents
A Desperate Time | 13 |
After the Peace | 39 |
Documenting Mass Murder | 53 |
Copyright | |
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