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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... executed . Finally , in addition to the routine arrests and executions , in 1978 a very large - scale mass execution of Eastern Zone citizens was carried out . The indiscriminate 1978 slaughter of Eastern Zone people has been well doc ...
... execution from the Eastern Zone of Democratic Kampuchea during the so - called Eastern Zone Mas- sacres in the first half of 1978. Another factor that may account for the disproportionate execution rate in Kampong Chhnang is the fact ...
... execution . Documentation Center mapping teams have located a number of sites where the local informants say that the mass . graves were in fact not from Khmer Rouge executions but rather from the bombing , the 1970-1975 war , victims ...
Contents
A Desperate Time | 13 |
After the Peace | 39 |
Documenting Mass Murder | 53 |
Copyright | |
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