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 101
... delegation headquarters in Phnom Penh . The last time Khieu Samphan and Son Sen had been in Phnom Penh was the first week of January 1979 just before fleeing towards the Thai border as Vietnamese troops advanced on the capital . At the ...
... delegation headquarters in Phnom Penh . The last time Khieu Samphan and Son Sen had been in Phnom Penh was the first week of January 1979 just before fleeing towards the Thai border as Vietnamese troops advanced on the capital . At the ...
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... delegation was exasperated by this U - turn . They could not see how the spirit of the new UN mandate , which instructed negotiations to be resumed not started all over again , was not being implemented . There is no way that anyone ...
... delegation was exasperated by this U - turn . They could not see how the spirit of the new UN mandate , which instructed negotiations to be resumed not started all over again , was not being implemented . There is no way that anyone ...
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... delegation in January was not in accordance with the spirit of the December UNGA resolution . They were extremely concerned that Kofi Annan had said he was not yet ready to send a delegation to Phnom Penh to resume negotiations ( as ...
... delegation in January was not in accordance with the spirit of the December UNGA resolution . They were extremely concerned that Kofi Annan had said he was not yet ready to send a delegation to Phnom Penh to resume negotiations ( as ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Keeping Pol Pot in the UN Cambodia seat | 24 |
The Worlds First Genocide Trial | 40 |
Copyright | |
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