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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... million , of which he concluded that 1.84 to 1.87 million were deaths due to the genocide . It is interesting that three of these investigations , all using a similar method- ology , achieved similar results , in the range of 1.67 to ...
... million and that 50 percent of these were due to violent causes , that is , execution.15 Because Heuveline's work ... million . This congruence is particularly notable in view of the fact that the two methods are so different . Together ...
... million , with his most likely es- timate 2.16 million . " Demographers Judith Banister and Paige Johnson argue that the decline in population between 1975 and the end of 1978 was 1.8 million.18 A study by Patrick Heuveline published in ...
Contents
A Desperate Time | 13 |
After the Peace | 39 |
Documenting Mass Murder | 53 |
Copyright | |
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