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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... crimes committed by the Khmer Rouge dur- ing the Thirty Years War is astonishing . When they accused someone of ... crimes , crimes against humanity , and that ultimate crime , geno- cide . Khmer Rouge depredations drove Cambodia's ...
... crimes for years to come . Even in the face of such daunting obstacles to accountability for war crimes , genocide , and other crimes against humanity , however , there re- main sensible courses of action . A wise teacher once said that ...
... crimes , worse than crimes against an individual , worse than crimes against the state . These are crimes against all of humanity . When the most monstrous crimes humans have ever con- ceived go unpunished , why should Cambodians worry ...
Contents
A Desperate Time | 13 |
After the Peace | 39 |
Documenting Mass Murder | 53 |
Copyright | |
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