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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... officials have repeatedly visited the Documentation Center to confer on various aspects of the process . This series of official contacts underlines the legal significance of the Documentation Center's archives and 70 AFTER THE KILLING ...
... officials of the Derg regime . Unfortunately , though there was keen 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 ...
... officials was central in driv- ing the whole tribunal process forward for more than five years . In June 1997 , three officials of the UN Office for Human Rights in Phnom Penh - David Hawk , Brad Adams , and Christophe Peschoux - worked ...
Contents
A Desperate Time | 13 |
After the Peace | 39 |
Documenting Mass Murder | 53 |
Copyright | |
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