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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... Forces to stand alone against the combined forces of the Khmer Rouge and their allies . On that very day , State of Cambodia President Heng Samrin issued a proclamation exhorting the people that " we must con- centrate all our forces on ...
... forces are tasked with the overt disruption of legitimate political party activity through verbal and physical harassment of opposition party members and representatives . . . . Reaction forces are hand - picked by SOC security forces ...
... forces by military forces loyal to Pol Pot . This suggests that there were some vari- ations in the intensity of violence in at least one region of Cambodia , de- pending upon the particular sort of revolutionary cadre who were in ...
Contents
A Desperate Time | 13 |
After the Peace | 39 |
Documenting Mass Murder | 53 |
Copyright | |
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