Cambodia's Curse: The Modern History of a Troubled LandPublicAffairs, 2011 M04 12 - 416 páginas A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist describes how Cambodia emerged from the harrowing years when a quarter of its population perished under the Khmer Rouge. A generation after genocide, Cambodia seemed on the surface to have overcome its history -- the streets of Phnom Penh were paved; skyscrapers dotted the skyline. But under this façe lies a country still haunted by its years of terror. Although the international community tried to rebuild Cambodia and introduce democracy in the 1990s, in the country remained in the grip of a venal government. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Joel Brinkley learned that almost a half of Cambodians who lived through the Khmer Rouge era suffered from P.T.S.D. -- and had passed their trauma to the next generation. His extensive close-up reporting in Cambodia's Curse illuminates the country, its people, and the deep historical roots of its modern-day behavior. |
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... Cambodian border. Our rooms' doors each had a padlock hasp, but it was up to ... day, we drove to the border. A Thai officer looked at our passports and the ... Cambodians, all wearing the black pajamas that were the communal clothing for ...
... Cambodian border. Our rooms' doors each had a padlock hasp, but it was up to ... day, we drove to the border. A Thai officer looked at our passports and the ... Cambodians, all wearing the black pajamas that were the communal clothing for ...
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... day weteyed can't always blame the choking dust. But compared with life in Cambodia since 1975, many refugees say their plight doesn't seem so bad. Talk to them. As they tell of years of horror and misery that Westerners can barely ...
... day weteyed can't always blame the choking dust. But compared with life in Cambodia since 1975, many refugees say their plight doesn't seem so bad. Talk to them. As they tell of years of horror and misery that Westerners can barely ...
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... Cambodia for the first time. In the interim I had left the CourierJournal ... Cambodia. But I had a big question on my mind. A decade after their invasion, the ... daily. As I read a small story on page 3, I sat up straight and would have ...
... Cambodia for the first time. In the interim I had left the CourierJournal ... Cambodia. But I had a big question on my mind. A decade after their invasion, the ... daily. As I read a small story on page 3, I sat up straight and would have ...
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... day is a struggle. Life holds few opportunities for joy. That impoverished people like Ten Keng and her family live here may not seem unusual. Every country, even the United States, has desperately poor communities. But in Cambodia, Ten ...
... day is a struggle. Life holds few opportunities for joy. That impoverished people like Ten Keng and her family live here may not seem unusual. Every country, even the United States, has desperately poor communities. But in Cambodia, Ten ...
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... daily caloric count, roughly 2,000 calories, to avoid malnutrition. So children suffer stunting—a failure to develop physically or mentally for lack of protein in the diet. That means they will grow up short and, in many cases, not very ...
... daily caloric count, roughly 2,000 calories, to avoid malnutrition. So children suffer stunting—a failure to develop physically or mentally for lack of protein in the diet. That means they will grow up short and, in many cases, not very ...
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CHAPTER THIRTEEN | |
CHAPTER FOURTEEN | |
CHAPTER FIFTEEN | |
CHAPTER SIXTEEN | |
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN | |
Acknowledgements | |
ABOUT THE AUTHOR AND PHOTOGRAPHER | |
CHAPTER ELEVEN | |
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