Getting Away With Genocide: Cambodia's Long Struggle Against the Khmer RougePluto Press, 2004 M10 12 - 327 pages This book covers the history of Cambodia since 1979 and the various attempts by the US and China to stop the Cambodian people from bringing the Khmer Rouge to justice. After Vietnam ousted the hated Khmer Rouge regime, much of the evidence needed for a full-scale tribunal became available. In 1979 the US and UK governments, rather than working for human rights justice and setting up a special tribunal, opted instead to back the Khmer Rouge at the UN, and approved the re-supply of Pol Pot's army in Thailand. Tom Fawthrop and Helen Jarvis reveal why it took 18 years for the UN to recognise the mass murder and crimes against humanity that took place under the Killing Fields regime from 1975-78. They explore in detail the role of the UN and the various countries involved, and they assess what chance still remains of holding a Cambodian trial under international law - especially in the light of the recent development of International Criminal Tribunals for Rwanda and the Former Yugoslavia. |
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Page 77
... affairs . These governments were approached by the Cambodian Documentation Commission ( CDC ) in New York to take legal action . David Hawk , CDC chairman , lamented that they all invoked various legal and political arguments or excuses ...
... affairs . These governments were approached by the Cambodian Documentation Commission ( CDC ) in New York to take legal action . David Hawk , CDC chairman , lamented that they all invoked various legal and political arguments or excuses ...
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... Affairs , was reportedly miffed with Hammarberg for exceeding his mandate and insisted that the matter of the Khmer Rouge tribunal was the exclusive prerogative of the Office of Legal Affairs . A UN turf - war erupted even before any ...
... Affairs , was reportedly miffed with Hammarberg for exceeding his mandate and insisted that the matter of the Khmer Rouge tribunal was the exclusive prerogative of the Office of Legal Affairs . A UN turf - war erupted even before any ...
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... Affairs ; and Mark Quarterman , an officer in the Department of Political Affairs and personal assistant to Kofi Annan . 17. ' Hun Sen : Cambodia united at any price ' , Phnom Penh Post , 4-16 October 1996 . 18. Hans Corell , cited in ...
... Affairs ; and Mark Quarterman , an officer in the Department of Political Affairs and personal assistant to Kofi Annan . 17. ' Hun Sen : Cambodia united at any price ' , Phnom Penh Post , 4-16 October 1996 . 18. Hans Corell , cited in ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Keeping Pol Pot in the UN Cambodia seat | 24 |
The Worlds First Genocide Trial | 40 |
Copyright | |
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