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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... charged with the liquidation of all enemies of Angkar ( " The Organization , " the chillingly modern alias Pol Pot ... charges of genocide : " We find prima facie culpability for acts against re- ligious and ethnic groups , such as the ...
... charges relating to member- ship in Khmer Rouge organizations and / or the commission of criminal acts in the furtherance of Khmer Rouge aims . This little - known area of accountability for the Cambodian genocide targeted low - level ...
... charges of se- rious offenses against international criminal and humanitarian law . Of those indicted , approximately half were in custody , either with trials in progress or serving sentences after conviction . 15 Yugoslavian President ...
Contents
A Desperate Time | 13 |
After the Peace | 39 |
Documenting Mass Murder | 53 |
Copyright | |
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