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After the killing fields : lessons from the Cambodian genocide

"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. Etcheson argues that this series of hostilities, which included both civil and external war, amounted to one long conflict, The Thirty Years War, and he 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 -about a half million higher than commonly believed. Detailing the struggle to come to terms with what happened in Cambodia, Etcheson concludes that real justice is not merely elusive, but in face may be impossible, for crimes on the scale of genocide." "The Mass Grave Mapping Project of the Documentation Center of Cambodia collected information that clearly shows that the pattern of killing was relatively uniform throughout the country. Despite regular denial of knowledge of the mass killing among the surviving leadership of the Khmer Rouge, Etcheson proves that they were not only aware of it, but that they personally managed and directed the genocide."--Jacket
eBook, English, 2005
Praeger, Westport, Conn., 2005
History
1 online resource (xii, 256 pages) : 1 map
9780313040290, 9780275985134, 031304029X, 027598513X
62704442
The thirty years war
A desperate time
After the peace
Documenting mass murder
Centralized terror
Terror in the east
Digging in the killing fields
The persistence of impunity
The politics of genocide justice
Challenging the culture of impunity
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