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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... result of Khmer Rouge battlefield successes but primarily as a result of its inherent weaknesses , the Royal Government of Cambo- dia was in chaos . As King Sihanouk expressed it in May 1994 , " There is a civil war between the Khmer ...
... result is consistent with reports that Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot developed a somewhat bizarre anthropological theory , holding that the tribal minorities populating the northeast in some sense represented pure “ original ” Cambodians ...
... result , it became un- likely that the suit would yield the results originally envisioned , and officers of the Belgian justice system subsequently determined that it would not be productive to pursue the case to its logical conclusion ...
Contents
A Desperate Time | 13 |
After the Peace | 39 |
Documenting Mass Murder | 53 |
Copyright | |
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