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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... impunity for the ruling class did not change appreciably under any of the subsequent regimes , through the Khmer Republic , Democratic Kampuchea , the ... IMPUNITY Thus , impunity suffuses contemporary CHALLENGING THE CULTURE OF IMPUNITY 169.
... impunity . A brief glance at the police blotter page in the biweekly Phnom Penh Post confirms the anarchy that prevails on Phnom Penh's streets . Until the worst crimes are punished , lesser crimes will be relativized . Until the mat ...
... IMPUNITY Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has asserted that a Khmer Rouge tribunal will help to " end the culture of impunity . " " 1 He is not alone in making such assertions . For example , the British government has expressed similar ...
Contents
A Desperate Time | 13 |
After the Peace | 39 |
Documenting Mass Murder | 53 |
Copyright | |
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