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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... justice , then the new order will be erected on shaky pillars of impunity . After the Killing Fields is the story of the search for that justice and why it has been frustrated for so long . To tell this story , we begin by returning to ...
... justice . There are many reasons why this kind of justice is rare and difficult to achieve . The case of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge regime is instructive in this re- spect . An analysis of the challenges to accountability for jus cogens ...
... justice before a court of law . Their impunity has not endured because of a lack of effort on the part of justice advocates ; the struggle for genocide justice in Cambodia has been ongoing for more than a quarter century . Rather , the ...
Contents
A Desperate Time | 13 |
After the Peace | 39 |
Documenting Mass Murder | 53 |
Copyright | |
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