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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... remains of victims in mass graves , including the bones of those interred in the graves . The simple environmental encroachment of rats , insects , mildew , seedlings , rust , and rot in the extremely humid tropical environment takes a ...
... remains examined revealed evidence of trauma in the form of sharp - force chopping injuries of the lower extremities , along with blunt - force trauma and gunshot wounds to the head.23 These results suggest that the remains found at ...
... remains intact , and that an entire people's hopes to achieve accountability for one of the worst episodes of mass murder in modern history have for so long been held hostage to the politics of genocide justice in Cambodia . 10 ...
Contents
A Desperate Time | 13 |
After the Peace | 39 |
Documenting Mass Murder | 53 |
Copyright | |
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