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 26
... Sihanouk – the VIP hostage – to accept a special assignment on behalf of a doomed regime . It was a supremely ironic ... Sihanouk's family , implored the prince to become the Khmer Rouge special emissary to the UN . His mission : to ...
... Sihanouk – the VIP hostage – to accept a special assignment on behalf of a doomed regime . It was a supremely ironic ... Sihanouk's family , implored the prince to become the Khmer Rouge special emissary to the UN . His mission : to ...
Page 83
... Sihanouk had been given sanctuary and support by China for five years after being ousted in the 1970 Lon Nol coup . In 1979 the former statesman and founder of the nation's independence was once again in exile , and once more Beijing's ...
... Sihanouk had been given sanctuary and support by China for five years after being ousted in the 1970 Lon Nol coup . In 1979 the former statesman and founder of the nation's independence was once again in exile , and once more Beijing's ...
Page 89
... Sihanouk had indicated he would consider dumping the Khmer Rouge in talks with Hun Sen in May 1989 , he had in the meantime returned to Beijing and was once more back on board with the Khmer Rouge . China insisted there could be no ...
... Sihanouk had indicated he would consider dumping the Khmer Rouge in talks with Hun Sen in May 1989 , he had in the meantime returned to Beijing and was once more back on board with the Khmer Rouge . China insisted there could be no ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Keeping Pol Pot in the UN Cambodia seat | 24 |
The Worlds First Genocide Trial | 40 |
Copyright | |
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