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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... criminal law and covered the basic out- lines of international law relating to war crimes , genocide , and other crimes against humanity.32 Additional training sessions were presented on such top- ics as criminal procedure , evidence ...
... criminal tribunal for the Khmer Rouge , rather than reflecting any serious interest in setting up a truth - telling body . Nothing came of the brief episode . In 1997 , the UN's Ambassador Hammarberg reenergized attempts to es- tablish ...
... Criminal Court ICTR . See International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda ICTY . See International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia Ieng Sary , 81 , 83 , 147 , 148 , 173 ; con- victed of genocide , 14 , 16 , 17 , 130 , 147 , 152 ...
Contents
A Desperate Time | 13 |
After the Peace | 39 |
Documenting Mass Murder | 53 |
Copyright | |
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