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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... ruling party is the primary objective . A number of core members of the party - for the most part , not the prominent names one tends to see in the press but im- portant figures within the party nonetheless would be potentially liable ...
... ruling party Central Committee meeting in February 2000 , Hun Sen addressed the gathered core members of the party , reassuring an antitribunal cadre that there was no need to worry about the tribunal , be- cause he had successfully ...
... ruling party , rather than on fealty to the stan- dards of the legal profession . " 1 In the parlance popularized during the UN intervention of the early 1990s , there is no " neutral political environment " in the administration of ...
Contents
A Desperate Time | 13 |
After the Peace | 39 |
Documenting Mass Murder | 53 |
Copyright | |
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