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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... prosecution . In the prosecutions by the Royal Cambodian Government after 1995 , human rights workers have shown that in numerous cases , persons charged with Khmer Rouge involvement in fact had nothing to do with the Khmer Rouge ...
... prosecutions for the murder of U.S. citizens by the Khmer Rouge , an ill - fated draft statute for a UN Se- curity Council - mandated tribunal , efforts to persuade allies such as Canada , Australia , and Israel to agree to prosecutions ...
... prosecutions . The Ethiopian genocide prosecutions have been in progress for more than a decade . Derg leader Mengistu , though he is being prosecuted in ab- sentia , enjoys continuing personal impunity in Zimbabwe . In November 1999 ...
Contents
A Desperate Time | 13 |
After the Peace | 39 |
Documenting Mass Murder | 53 |
Copyright | |
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