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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... attempt to devise a novel " mixed " national - international court . All of these mechanisms have been resorted to ... ATTEMPTS TO ATTACK IMPUNITY IN CAMBODIA The persistence of impunity in Cambodia has been extraordinary . Cam- bodia's ...
... attempt- ing to kill the baby tribunal before it is born . Chinese officials have made clear that they would veto any attempt by the UN Security Council to create a Cambodia tribunal using the council's powers to protect the peace.33 ...
... attempt to purchase Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot from his rebellious troops in barter for rice and med- icine , and finally , attempting to serve as an “ honest broker " in the negoti- ations to establish the proposed " mixed " tribunal ...
Contents
A Desperate Time | 13 |
After the Peace | 39 |
Documenting Mass Murder | 53 |
Copyright | |
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