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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... carried out in- stitutionalized torture , devising ingenious low - tech methods to inflict pain on helpless ... carry- ing out mass murder against entire villages where some had protested the elimination of their faith . The scale of the ...
... carrying out torture.32 Not far from Tuol Prich is Tlork Prison , called the " Tuol Sleng " of Svay Rieng . Moreover ... carried out by Documentation Center Mass Grave Mapping Teams with witnesses who observed the TERROR IN THE EAST 99.
... carried out by these earlier re- searchers provided many helpful leads to later investigators . For example , the interviews carried out by the Research Committee during their house- hold survey garnered many details regarding specific ...
Contents
A Desperate Time | 13 |
After the Peace | 39 |
Documenting Mass Murder | 53 |
Copyright | |
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