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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 32
... operation in Cambodia . Moreover , besides peace , stability , and reconciliation , there were many other key goals of the peace agreements that the UN had failed to accomplish in Cam- bodia . How could it be that there was such a ...
... operation . Partisans of the UN operation should have avoided claiming to have achieved that goal . So , with what was at best a protodemocracy stumbling ahead , the war in Cambodia raged on . Cambodian battlefields saw their heaviest ...
... operation , more than $ 100 million for the refugee repatriation , and some $ 880 million for the reconstruction of Cambodia's economy . See U.S. Congress , House Committee on Appropriations , Foreign Operations , Export Fi- nancing ...
Contents
A Desperate Time | 13 |
After the Peace | 39 |
Documenting Mass Murder | 53 |
Copyright | |
6 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
After the Killing Fields: Lessons from the Cambodian Genocide Craig Etcheson No preview available - 2005 |