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Author: Tom Fawthrop, Helen Jarvis
Paperback: 350 pages
Publisher: Pluto Press (October 12, 2004)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0745320279
ISBN-13: 978-0745320274
Format: Hardcover, Paperback
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Book Description
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.

Getting Away With Genocide: Cambodia's Long Struggle Against the Khmer Rouge

By Admin | Monday, December 26, 2011

Author: Helen Ibbitson Jessup
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Publishing Date: June 2004
Paperback: 224 pages
Language: English
ISBN-10: 050020375X
ISBN-13: 978-0500203750
Format: Paperback
Series: World of Art
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Book Description
A useful introduction to the culture, history and monuments of Cambodia, a country which is increasing in popularity as a tourist destination for the more adventurous traveler.

Art & Architecture of Cambodia (World of Art)

By Admin | Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Author: Alexander Laban Hinton, Robert Jay Lifton
Publisher: University of California Press
Publishing Date: 1st Edition, December 6, 2004
Paperback: 382 pages
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0520241797
ISBN-13: 978-0520241794
Format: Kindle Edition, Hardcover, Paperback
Series: California Series in Public Anthropology
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Book Description
Of all the horrors human beings perpetrate, genocide stands near the top of the list. Its toll is staggering: well over 100 million dead worldwide. Why Did They Kill? is one of the first anthropological attempts to analyze the origins of genocide. In it, Alexander Hinton focuses on the devastation that took place in Cambodia from April 1975 to January 1979 under the Khmer Rouge in order to explore why mass murder happens and what motivates perpetrators to kill. Basing his analysis on years of investigative work in Cambodia, Hinton finds parallels between the Khmer Rouge and the Nazi regimes. Policies in Cambodia resulted in the deaths of over 1.7 million of that country's 8 million inhabitants--almost a quarter of the population--who perished from starvation, overwork, illness, malnutrition, and execution. Hinton considers this violence in light of a number of dynamics, including the ways in which difference is manufactured, how identity and meaning are constructed, and how emotionally resonant forms of cultural knowledge are incorporated into genocidal ideologies.

Why Did They Kill?: Cambodia in the Shadow of Genocide

By Admin | Saturday, December 17, 2011

Author: Evan R. Gottesman
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publishing Date: August 11, 2004
Paperback: 454 pages
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0300105134
ISBN-13: 978-0300105131
Format: Hardcover, Paperback
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Book Description
This title book tells of the events and personalities that shaped Cambodian history during the turbulent period following the overthrow of the Khmer Rouge regime in 1979 and explains how the legacy of this period continues to influence events in Cambodia today.

Cambodia After the Khmer Rouge: Inside the Politics of Nation Building

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Author: Ben Kiernan
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publishing Date: 2nd Edition, August 11, 2004
Paperback: 488 pages
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0300102623
ISBN-13: 978-0300102628
Format: Hardcover, Paperback
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Book Description
How did Pol Pot, a tyrant comparable to Hitler and Stalin in his brutality and contempt for human life, rise to power? This authoritative book explores what happened in Cambodia from 1930 to 1975, tracing the origins and trajectory of the Cambodian Communist movement and setting the ascension of Pol Pot's genocidal regime in the context of the conflict between colonialism and nationalism. A new preface bring this edition up to date.

How Pol Pot Came to Power: Colonialism, Nationalism, and Communism in Cambodia, 1930-1975

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Author: John Marston, Elizabeth Guthrie
Publisher: Univ of Hawaii Pr
Publishing Date: July 2004
Hardcover: 260 pages
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0824826663
ISBN-13: 978-0824826666
Format: Paperback, Hardcover
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Book Description
This volume showcases some of the most current and exciting research being done on Cambodian religious ideas and practices by a new generation of scholars from a variety of disciplines. The different contributors examine in some manner the relationship between religion and the ideas and institutions that have given shape to Cambodia as a social and political body, or nation. Although they do not share the same approach to the idea of "nation," all are concerned with the processes of religion that give meaning to social interaction, which in some way includes "Cambodian" identity. Chapters touch on such far-reaching theoretical issues as the relation to religion of Southeast Asian polity; the nature of colonial religious transformation; "syncretism" in Southeast Asian Buddhism; the relation of religious icon to national identity, religion and gender; transnationalism and social movements; and identity among diaspora communities.

While much has been published on Cambodia's recent civil war and the Pol Pot period and its aftermath, few English-language works are available on Cambodian religion. This book takes a major step in filling that gap, offering a broad overview of the subject that is relevant not only for the field of Cambodian studies, but also for students and scholars of Southeast Asian history, Buddhism, comparative religion, and anthropology.

History, Buddhism, and New Religious Movements in Cambodia

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