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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... questions surrounding the sources and extent of violence during the Democratic Kampuchea regime . In that work , I wrote that it " is open to serious question ... just how sys- tematically , thoroughly , and deeply the post - victory ...
... question . We frame the question by asking , Was there any difference in the overall levels of vi- olence in a given region when it was under the control of those who later superseded the Khmer Rouge regime , as opposed to when it was ...
... question , Why ? Why did Pol Pot do it ? Why did we have to suffer so much ? Why was our country destroyed by its own children ? While the accusatorial format of criminal prosecution may not necessarily pro- vide immediate answers to ...
Contents
A Desperate Time | 13 |
After the Peace | 39 |
Documenting Mass Murder | 53 |
Copyright | |
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