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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... issues of international law , a tendency that has remained consistent through several changes of national leadership . The Philippines has occasionally expressed interest in helping to deal with the tribunal issue , at one point even ...
... issue was put forward by Republican Senator Mitch Mc- Connell.43 In 2001 , however , McConnell announced his opposition to the tribunal as currently envisioned and called on the Bush administration to reverse the U.S. policy of support ...
... issue are all over the map . Looking at how the premier has managed the issue thus far in terms of concrete ac- tion , however , one can register slow - very slow - forward progress toward some sort of tribunal , but the pace of that ...
Contents
A Desperate Time | 13 |
After the Peace | 39 |
Documenting Mass Murder | 53 |
Copyright | |
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