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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: Nawuth Keat, Martha Kendall
Publisher: National Geographic Children's Books
Publishing Date: 1st Edition, October 13, 2009
Hardcover: 112 pages
Language: English
ISBN-10: 142630515X
ISBN-13: 978-1426305153
Format: Kindle Edition, Hardcover
Reading level: Ages 12 and up
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Alive in the Killing Fields: Surviving the Khmer Rouge Genocide

By Admin | Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Author: Henry Kamm
Publisher: Arcade Publishing
Publishing Date: 1st Edition, April 18, 2011
Paperback: 288 pages
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1611451264
ISBN-13: 978-1611451269
Format: Hardcover, Paperback
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Cambodia: Report From a Stricken Land

By Admin | Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Author: Haing Ngor
Publisher: Basic Books
Publishing Date: December 26, 2003
Paperback: 528 pages
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0786713151
ISBN-13: 978-0786713158
Format: Hardcover, Paperback, Audio, Cassette, Audiobook, Unabridged
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Survival in the Killing Fields

By Admin | Monday, February 13, 2012

Author: Michelle Lord
Publisher: Lee & Low Books
Publishing Date: March 30, 2008
Hardcover: 32 pages
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1600601391
ISBN-13: 978-1600601392
Format: Hardcover
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Book Description
When Arn was a young boy in Cambodia, his days were filled with love, laughter, and the sweet sounds of music. That all changed suddenly in 1975 when Arn's village was invaded by Khmer Rouge soldiers and his family was torn apart.

Nine-year-old Arn was taken to a children's work camp, where he labored long hours in the rice fields under the glaring eyes of threatening soldiers. Overworked, underfed, and in constant fear for his life, Arn had to find a way to survive. When guards asked for volunteers to play music one day, Arn bravely raised his hand-taking a chance that would change the course of his life.

A Song for Cambodia is the inspirational true story of Arn Chorn-Pond. His heartfelt music created beauty in a time of darkness and turned tragedy into healing.

A Song for Cambodia

By Admin | Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Author: Chanrithy Him
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Publishing Date: April 2001
Paperback: 330 pages
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0393322106
ISBN-13: 978-0393322101
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Chanrithy Him felt compelled to tell of surviving life under the Khmer Rouge in a way "worthy of the suffering which I endured as a child."
In the Cambodian proverb, "when broken glass floats" is the time when evil triumphs over good. That time began in 1975, when the Khmer Rouge took power in Cambodia and the Him family began their trek through the hell of the "killing fields." In a mesmerizing story, Him vividly recounts a Cambodia where rudimentary labor camps are the norm and technology, such as cars and electricity, no longer exists. Death becomes a companion at the camps, along with illness. Yet through the terror, Chanrithy's family remains loyal to one another despite the Khmer Rouge's demand of loyalty only to itself. Moments of inexpressible sacrifice and love lead them to bring what little food they have to the others, even at the risk of their own lives. In 1979, "broken glass" finally sinks. From a family of twelve, only five of the Him children survive. Sponsored by an uncle in Oregon, they begin their new lives in a land that promises welcome to those starved for freedom. 15 black and whtie illustrations

When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge

By Admin | Saturday, January 14, 2012

Author: William Shawcross
Publisher: Cooper Square Press
Publishing Date: Revised Edition, August 14, 2002
Paperback: 544 pages
Language: English
ISBN-10: 081541224X
ISBN-13: 978-0815412243
Format: Hardcover, Paperback
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Book Description
Although there are many books and films dealing with the Vietnam War, Sideshow tells the truth about America's secret and illegal war with Cambodia from 1969 to 1973. William Shawcross interviewed hundreds of people of all nationalities, including cabinet ministers, military men, and civil servants, and extensively researched U.S. Government documents. This full-scale investigation—with material new to this edition—exposes how Kissinger and Nixon treated Cambodia as a sideshow. Although the president and his assistant claimed that a secret bombing campaign in Cambodia was necessary to eliminate North Vietnamese soldiers who were attacking American troops across the border, Shawcross maintains that the bombings only spread the conflict, but led to the rise of the Khmer Rouge and the subsequent massacre of a third of Cambodia's population.

Sideshow: Kissinger, Nixon, and the Destruction of Cambodia

By Admin | Thursday, December 29, 2011

Author: Michael Vickery
Publisher: Silkworm Books
Publishing Date: January 1, 2000
Paperback: 432 pages
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9747100819
ISBN-13: 978-9747100815
Format: Hardcover, Paperback
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Book Description
Cambodia 1975-1982 presents a unique and carefully researched analysis of the Democratic Kampuchea regime of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge (1975-79) and the early years of the People's Republic of Kampuchea (1979-89). When it was first published in 1984, the book provided one of the few balanced and reasoned voices in a world shocked by media reports of incredible brutality. Now, 15 years later, the book remains unsurpassed as an original historical document bringing a new interpretation based on the earliest primary sources - interviews with the Khmer people themselves. "The most comprehensive and definitive political history to date of the Pol Pot regime in Cambodia. . . . Overall a balanced, judicious account." -Choice

Cambodia 1975-1982

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Author: David M. Ayres
Publisher: Univ of Hawaii Pr
Publishing Date: April 2000
Hardcover: 256 pages
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0824822382
ISBN-13: 978-0824822385
Format: Hardcover
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Book Description
In this exacting and insightful examination of the crisis in Cambodian education, David M. Ayres challenges the widespread belief that the key to Cambodia's future development and prosperity lies in overcoming the dreadful legacy of the Khmer Rouge. He seeks to explain why Cambodia has struggled with an educational crisis for more than four decades (including the years before the Khmer Rouge came to power in 1975) and thus casts the net of his analysis well beyond Pol Pot and his accomplices. Drawing on an extensive range of sources, Ayres clearly shows that Cambodia's educational dilemma--the disparity between the education system and the economic, political, and cultural environments, which it should serve--can be explained by setting education within its historical and cultural contexts.

Anatomy of a Crisis: Education, Development, and the State in Cambodia, 1953-1998

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Author: James A. Tyner
Publisher: Ashgate
Publishing Date: July 29, 2008
Hardcover: 228 pages
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0754670961
ISBN-13: 978-0754670964
Format: Hardcover
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Book Description
Between 1975 and 1978, the Khmer Rouge carried out genocide in Cambodia unparalleled in modern history. Approximately 2 million died - almost one quarter of the population. Taking an explicitly geographical approach, and a starting point that 'geo-graphy' concerns the writing of space, this book suggests that the Khmer Rouge's activities not only led to genocide, but terracide - the erasure of space.In the Cambodia of 1975, the landscape would reveal vestiges of an indigenous precolonial Khmer society, a French colonialism and American intervention. The Khmer Rouge, however, were not content with retaining the past inscriptions of previous modes of production and spatial practices. Instead, they attempted to erase time and space to create their own utopian vision of a communal society. The Khmer Rouge's erasing and reshaping of space was only a part of a consistent ignorance, neglect and sacrifice of Cambodia and its people - each previous foreign influence also is seen to have attempted not only to rewrite history, but reproduce geography.While focussing on Cambodia, the book provides a clearer geographic understanding to genocide in general and insights into the importance of spatial factors in geopolitical conflict.

The Killing of Cambodia: Geography, Genocide and the Unmaking of Space

By Admin | Tuesday, December 27, 2011

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: Ben Kiernan (Editor)
Publisher: Yale Univ Southeast Asia Studies
Publishing Date: September 1993
Paperback: 335 pages
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0938692496
ISBN-13: 978-0938692492
Format: Hardcover, Paperback
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Book Description
Proceedings of the 1992 Raphael Lemkin Symosium, co-published with the Schell Center for International Human Rights, Yale Law School. Specialists from seven disciplines examine the record of the Khmer Rouge, and the international community's involvement with the affairs of the country. In particular the book examines the capacity, responsibility and performance of the international community under international law, and the responsibility or accountability, if any, of the Khmer Rouge for the policies and practices of the Khmer Rouge period. Preface by George Andreopoulos, Schell Center, Yale Law School. Introduction by Ben Kiernan, Department of History, Yale University..

Genocide and Democracy in Cambodia: The Khmer Rouge, the U.N., and the International Community

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Author: Edward Kissi
Publisher: Lexington Books
Publishing Date: March 21, 2006
Paperback: 216 pages
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0739112635
ISBN-13: 978-0739112632
Format: Hardcover, Paperback
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Book Description
Revolution and Genocide in Ethiopia and Cambodia is the first comparative study of the Ethiopian and Cambodian revolutions of the early 1970s. One of the few comparative studies of genocide in the developing world, this book presents some of the key arguments in traditional genocide scholarship, but the book's author, Edward Kissi, takes a different position, arguing that the Cambodian genocide and the atrocious crimes in Ethiopia had very different motives.

Kissi's findings reveal that genocide was a tactic specifically chosen by Cambodia's Khmer Rouge to intentionally and systematically annihilate certain ethnic and religious groups, whereas Ethiopia's Dergue resorted to terror and political killing in the effort to retain power. Revolution and Genocide in Ethiopia and Cambodia demonstrates that the extent to which revolutionary states turn to policies of genocide depends greatly on how they acquire their power and what domestic and international opposition they face. This is an important and intriguing book for students of African and Asian history and those interested in the study of genocide.

Revolution and Genocide in Ethiopia and Cambodia

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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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Author: Loung Ung
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Publishing Date: April 4, 2006
Paperback: 288 pages
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0060856262
ISBN-13: 978-0060856267
Format: Kindle Edition, Hardcover, Paperback, Audio, CD, Audiobook, MP3 Audio, Unabridged, Audible Audio Edition, Unabridged
Series: P.S.
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Book Description
One of seven children of a high-ranking government official, Loung Ung lived a privileged life in the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh until the age of five. Then, in April 1975, Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge army stormed into the city, forcing Ung's family to flee and, eventually, to disperse. Loung was trained as a child soldier in a work camp for orphans, her siblings were sent to labor camps, and those who survived the horrors would not be reunited until the Khmer Rouge was destroyed.

Harrowing yet hopeful, Loung's powerful story is an unforgettable account of a family shaken and shattered, yet miraculously sustained by courage and love in the face of unspeakable brutality.

First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers

By Admin | Sunday, December 18, 2011

Author: Arnold R. Isaacs
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Publishing Date: New Ed edition, December 30, 1998
Paperback: 576 pages
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0801861071
ISBN-13: 978-0801861079
Format: Hardcover, Paperback
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A gripping account of one of the century's most harrowing human catastrophes—the fall of South Vietnam— Without Honor captures the tragedy and the irony of the Vietnam War's last days and examines the consequences of the American military and political decisions that had sustained the war effort for a generation only to lead to the worst foreign policy failure in the nation's history. Arnold Isaacs, who spent the final years of the war in Vietnam as a correspondent for the Baltimore Sun, describes his firsthand observations of the collapse of Cambodia and South Vietnam—from the 1973 Paris peace agreement to the American evacuation of Saigon and its aftermath—with heartbreaking detail, from the devastated battlefields and villages to the boats filled with terrified refugees. He also provides an historical record of unparalleled accuracy and depth about the strategic decisions made during the war's end game and the intelligence failure that led Americans and their Southeast Asian allies to underestimate the strength and perseverance of the enemy. Drawing on previously classified military documents, field reports from American advisors, eyewitness accounts by soldiers and civilians, and North Vietnamese propaganda broadcasts, Isaacs offers a compelling and compassionate portrait of the impact of America's "Vietnamization" of the conflict and a bracing indictment of political and military leaders in the United States and both Vietnams for the massive human suffering that accompanied the end of the war.

Without Honor: Defeat in Vietnam and Cambodia

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Author: David P. Chandler
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publishing Date: September 10, 1993
Paperback: 408 pages
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0300057520
ISBN-13: 978-0300057522
Format: Hardcover,
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Book Description
This history of Cambodia from World War II up to the Vietnamese invasion in 1979 focuses on the devastating revolution that convulsed the country under Pol Pot between 1975 and 1979, and the civil war that preceded it. David Chandler offers an analysis of the chaos during the 1970s and an understanding of events in the previous quartercentury. Drawing on vast quantities of primary material (including his own reports for the US embassy while a foreign service officer in Phnom Penh), on interviews, and on the scholarly literature, Chandler considers why the revolution happened, how it related to Cambodia's earlier history and to other events in southeast Asia, why it took the course it did, who was responsible for it, and to what extent its ideology drew on foreign rather than Cambodian elements.

The Tragedy of Cambodian History: Politics, War, and Revolution since 1945

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Author: Ben Kiernan
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publishing Date: 3rd Edition, August 19, 2008
Paperback: 544 pages
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0300144342
ISBN-13: 978-0300144345
Format: Paperback
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Book Description
The Khmer Rouge revolution turned Cambodia into grisly killing fields, as the Pol Pot regime murdered or starved to death a million and a half of Cambodia's eight million inhabitants. This book - the first comprehensive study of the Pol Pot regime - describes the violent origins, social context, and course of the revolution, providing a new answer to the question of why a group of Cambodian intellectuals imposed genocide on their own country.

The Pol Pot Regime: Race, Power, and Genocide in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, 1975-79

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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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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: Loung Ung
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Publishing Date: April 11, 2006
Paperback: 268 pages
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0060733950
ISBN-13: 978-0060733957
Format: Kindle Edition, Library Binding, Paperback
Series: P.S.
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Book Description
After enduring years of hunger, deprivation, and devastating loss at the hands of the Khmer Rouge, ten-year-old Loung Ung became the "lucky child," the sibling chosen to accompany her eldest brother to America while her one surviving sister and two brothers remained behind. In this poignant and elegiac memoir, Loung recalls her assimilation into an unfamiliar new culture while struggling to overcome dogged memories of violence and the deep scars of war. In alternating chapters, she gives voice to Chou, the beloved older sister whose life in war-torn Cambodia so easily could have been hers. Highlighting the harsh realities of chance and circumstance in times of war as well as in times of peace, Lucky Child is ultimately a testament to the resilience of the human spirit and to the salvaging strength of family bonds.

Lucky Child: A Daughter of Cambodia Reunites with the Sister She Left Behind

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