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 “war” had ended in 1979, more than a decade before the UN ... Cambodian people, had ruled Cambodia since 1941, until a military coup deposed him in ... government, including Hun Sen, out of the country. After Vietnam pulled out ...
... Cambodian “war” had ended in 1979, more than a decade before the UN ... Cambodian people, had ruled Cambodia since 1941, until a military coup deposed him in ... government, including Hun Sen, out of the country. After Vietnam pulled out ...
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... Cambodia's child mortality rate is 60 percent higher than in Vietnam or Thailand, its neighbors. But if you travel the corridors of government in Phnom Penh, you'll find Cambodia's only portly people: senior government ministers. Their ...
... Cambodia's child mortality rate is 60 percent higher than in Vietnam or Thailand, its neighbors. But if you travel the corridors of government in Phnom Penh, you'll find Cambodia's only portly people: senior government ministers. Their ...
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... government positions to his mandarins. Once ensconced, these aides would be awarded the right to collect rice from the farmers who lived in their respective territories and keep part of it— generally onetenth of the crop. Over time ...
... government positions to his mandarins. Once ensconced, these aides would be awarded the right to collect rice from the farmers who lived in their respective territories and keep part of it— generally onetenth of the crop. Over time ...
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... Cambodia's ossified government. At their urging King Norodom promised to abolish slavery and end the monarchy's insistence that all land belonged to the crown. He also pledged to reform “tax collection,” which had grown into a system of ...
... Cambodia's ossified government. At their urging King Norodom promised to abolish slavery and end the monarchy's insistence that all land belonged to the crown. He also pledged to reform “tax collection,” which had grown into a system of ...
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... government 160,000 francs a year—a very considerable sum one hundred years ... Cambodia. Otherwise, he was a compliant king. Soon after he took office he ... Cambodian standards, who were free to do pretty much what they wanted. For ...
... government 160,000 francs a year—a very considerable sum one hundred years ... Cambodia. Otherwise, he was a compliant king. Soon after he took office he ... Cambodian standards, who were free to do pretty much what they wanted. For ...
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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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