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Author: Huy Vannak, Seth Mydans (Foreword)
Publisher: Documentation Center of Cambodia
Publishing Date: 2010
Paperback: 80 pages
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9995060191
ISBN-13: 978-9995060190
Format: Paperback
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Bou Meng: A Survivor From Khmer Rouge Prison S-21, Justice for the Future Not Just for the Victims

By Admin | Wednesday, February 29, 2012

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: Peter Maguire
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publishing Date: 2nd Edition, March 23, 2005
Hardcover: 280 pages
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0231120524
ISBN-13: 978-0231120524
Format: Paperback, Hardcover
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Book Description
The Khmer Rouge regime took control of Cambodia by force of arms, then committed the most brazen crimes since the Third Reich: at least 1.5 million people murdered between 1975 and 1979. Yet no individuals were ever tried or punished. This book is the story of Peter Maguire's effort to learn how Cambodia's "culture of impunity" developed, why it persists, and the failures of the "international community" to confront the Cambodian genocide. Written from a personal and historical perspective, Facing Death in Cambodia recounts Maguire's growing anguish over the gap between theories of universal justice and political realities.

Maguire documents the atrocities and the aftermath through personal interviews with victims and perpetrators, discussions with international and NGO officials, journalistic accounts, and government sources gathered during a ten-year odyssey in search of answers. The book includes a selection of haunting pictures from among the thousands taken at the now infamous Tuol Sleng prison (also referred to as S-21), through which at least 14,000 men, women, and children passed -- and from which fewer than a dozen emerged alive.

What he discovered raises troubling questions: Was the Cambodian genocide a preview of the genocidal civil wars that would follow in the wake of the Cold War? Is international justice an attainable idea or a fiction superimposed over an unbearably dark reality? Did issues of political expediency allow Cambodian leaders to escape prosecution?The Khmer Rouge violated the Nuremberg Principles, the United Nations Charter, the laws of war, and the UN Genocide Convention. Yet in the decade after the regime's collapse, the perpetrators were rescued and rehabilitated-even rewarded-by China, Thailand, the United States, and the UN. According to Peter Maguire, Cambodia holds the key to understanding why recent UN interventions throughout the world have failed to prevent atrocities and to enforce treaties.

Facing Death in Cambodia

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