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 52
... Asean and the UN were concerned about rebuilding the shattered nation . Asean's resolution called for self - determination while ignoring the realities of a total political and social vacuum in the wake of Pol Pot's destruction . One of ...
... Asean and the UN were concerned about rebuilding the shattered nation . Asean's resolution called for self - determination while ignoring the realities of a total political and social vacuum in the wake of Pol Pot's destruction . One of ...
Page 86
... Asean nations plus Laos and Vietnam also participated , with Indonesia chairing the proceedings . A few months later in 1988 the Asean resolution in the UN General Assembly included for the first time a reference to the mass killings ...
... Asean nations plus Laos and Vietnam also participated , with Indonesia chairing the proceedings . A few months later in 1988 the Asean resolution in the UN General Assembly included for the first time a reference to the mass killings ...
Page 200
... Asean summit , and the Asean Tourism Ministerial Meeting that ushered in ' Visit Cambodia Year 2003 ' . And as far as the Khmer Rouge Trials were concerned , the riots were manna from heaven for those who doubted the government's ...
... Asean summit , and the Asean Tourism Ministerial Meeting that ushered in ' Visit Cambodia Year 2003 ' . And as far as the Khmer Rouge Trials were concerned , the riots were manna from heaven for those who doubted the government's ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Keeping Pol Pot in the UN Cambodia seat | 24 |
The Worlds First Genocide Trial | 40 |
Copyright | |
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