After the Killing Fields - Lessons from the Cambodian Genocide

Informationen zum Autor Craig Etcheson is a principal founder of the Documentation Center of Cambodia in Phnom Penh and former Program Manager and Acting Director of the Cambodia Genocide Program at Yale University. Klappentext 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. Arguing that this series of hostilities, which included both civil and external war, amounted to one long conflict--The Thirty Years War--Craig Etcheson 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 people--about half a million more than commonly believed. Detailing the struggle of coming to terms with what happened in Cambodia, Etcheson concludes that real justice is not merely elusive but may, in fact, be impossible for crimes on the scale of genocide. Zusammenfassung New findings show that the death toll from the Cambodian genocide was approximately 2.2 million about a half million higher than commonly believed. Despite regular denials from the surviving leaders of the Khmer Rouge! the author demonstrates not only that they were aware of the mass killings! but that they personally managed and directed them.

Product details

• Authors: Craig Etcheson, Craig Carlyle Etcheson
• Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.06.2006
• EAN: 9780896725805
• ISBN: 978-0-89672-580-5
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 235 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Modern Southeast Asia Series; Modern Southeast Asia; Modern Southeast Asia Series; Modern Southeast Asia
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous