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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... continued for nearly another decade afterward . The outlines of the conflict in Cambodia changed with the United Nations interven- tion , but the basic issue underlying the war - the Khmer Rouge drive for power was not resolved by the ...
... continued to massacre civilians in Cambodia.19 Accustomed to relating to the Khmer Rouge as a member state of the United Nations ( UN ) , the UN was at a bit of a loss as to how to deal with this kind of aggression . " The Khmer Rouge ...
... continued virtually unabated . While completion of this gargantuan construction project reduced the need to conscript " vol- unteers " for " wall - building " duties , some teams continued to be requisi- tioned for maintenance chores ...
Contents
A Desperate Time | 13 |
After the Peace | 39 |
Documenting Mass Murder | 53 |
Copyright | |
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