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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... interest on the part of Ethiopian officials , no funding could be secured to support a project in Ethiopia similar in scope to that undertaken in Cambodia . In April 2000 , Dr. Helen Jarvis , at the time an associate professor at the ...
... interest on the part of the UN's Hammarberg as re- gards the matter of impunity and accountability in Cambodia.24 In early 1999 , however , the Cambodian government approached officials of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation ...
... interest in the Khmer Rouge tri- bunal issue , the British , Dutch , Danish , Norwegians , and Swedish have shown the most consistent level of interest in , and support for , UN in- volvement in a Khmer Rouge tribunal . Along with two ...
Contents
A Desperate Time | 13 |
After the Peace | 39 |
Documenting Mass Murder | 53 |
Copyright | |
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