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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... violence of the Khmer Rouge regime reflecting an underlying cultural trait of the Cambodian people , historically unique to the time and place it occurred ? Or did the violence of the Khmer Rouge regime emanate from some more broadly ...
... violence in Democratic Kampuchea was centrally directed . The first class of evidence is a large collection of official docu- ments discovered only in the late 1990s , consisting of the bureaucratic records of the region , zone , and ...
... violence increased substantially after Pol Pot asserted con- trol over Region 23 , which by our reckoning occurred ... violence against the civilian pop- ulation in Region 23 was an ordinary affair and that this violence was sus- tained ...
Contents
A Desperate Time | 13 |
After the Peace | 39 |
Documenting Mass Murder | 53 |
Copyright | |
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