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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... estimates of the contents of mass graves , in combination with other information . Such an estimate is possible on the basis of the Documentation Center mass grave data . This calculation re- quires determining the ratio of those who ...
... estimate of the proportion of deaths due to execution is likely to be the most reliable . When compared with the ... estimates of the Khmer Rouge death toll as of 1984 , Vickery argued , Given the lack of precision inherent in all ...
... estimates of numbers of victims in particular mass grave pits are not based on passerby guesstimates or the lore provided by local ruling party officials . In some cases , information about victim counts at particular sites comes from ...
Contents
A Desperate Time | 13 |
After the Peace | 39 |
Documenting Mass Murder | 53 |
Copyright | |
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