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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... persons charged with Khmer Rouge involvement in fact had nothing to do with the Khmer Rouge . There is substantial evidence of improper prosecutions and proce- dural irregularities . In all these cases , no ranking perpetrator has been ...
... persons responsible for serious violations of international humanitarian law com- mitted in the territory of the former Yugoslavia since 1991. " The ICTY is based in The Hague , the Netherlands . Ten years after the establishment of the ...
... person committee structure is found at the very apex of the party , where the Standing Committee of the Central Committee constituted the highest political authority of the party and consisted of more than three persons . Even so ...
Contents
A Desperate Time | 13 |
After the Peace | 39 |
Documenting Mass Murder | 53 |
Copyright | |
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