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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... areas . Within the upper levels of the government's security services and po- litical leadership , suspicion ran deep about the potential for subversion among the population in their " liberated " areas . After the 1985-1986 dry season ...
... areas controlled by Pol Pot versus areas controlled by other Cambodian revolutionary forces . Ac- cording to one view , the levels of violence were more or less the same throughout all of Cambodia during the Khmer Rouge regime ...
... areas are in the most remote and inaccessible locations in all of Cambodia , a country known for difficulty of access in even the most forgiving regions and seasons . Some of these areas are also danger- ous , due to a variety of ...
Contents
A Desperate Time | 13 |
After the Peace | 39 |
Documenting Mass Murder | 53 |
Copyright | |
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