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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... leader who was in power at that time - Hun Sen - still controlled the fate of the nation . Given his relative youth and ... leadership training . He was one to be watched and groomed . Over the course of the 1970-1975 civil war , however ...
... leadership of the Communist Party of Kampuchea was in control of a nationwide coercive apparatus designed to physically elimi- nate all stripes of possible opposition to the policies of the party . These new data strongly support one of ...
... leadership within the organization . With the introduction of the Cambo- dian Genocide Program's Biographical ... leadership was arranged ac- cording to the classic communist cell structure , with a three - person com- mittee in charge ...
Contents
A Desperate Time | 13 |
After the Peace | 39 |
Documenting Mass Murder | 53 |
Copyright | |
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