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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... example , see “ Commentary Views Prosecution of Khmer Rouge , " FBIS- EAS - 95-157 , August 15 , 1995 , 67 ; the author was one of the miscreants " con- victed " by the Khmer Rouge . 22. See , for example , Craig Etcheson , " Sanctions ...
... example , see the chapter on China by Jean - Louis Mar- golin in Stephane Courtois et al . , The Black Book of Communism : Crimes , Ter- ror , Repression ( Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 1999 ) . 33. See , for example , the ...
... example , on the tenth anniversary of the beginning of the Rwandan genocide , Annan said , " If there is one legacy I would most wish to leave to my successors , it is an Organization both better equipped to prevent geno- cide , and ...
Contents
A Desperate Time | 13 |
After the Peace | 39 |
Documenting Mass Murder | 53 |
Copyright | |
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