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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... Thailand, bringing with them deadly diseases, emaciated bodies, and stories so terrible they were hard to believe—the world's first clear image of the Khmer Rouge horrors. That's where I was going. In those days, before the Internet ...
... Thailand, bringing with them deadly diseases, emaciated bodies, and stories so terrible they were hard to believe—the world's first clear image of the Khmer Rouge horrors. That's where I was going. In those days, before the Internet ...
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... Vietnamese troops to launch an allout offensive that would drive them across the border into Thailand. And some wait to learn where the next steps in their miserable lives will lead them. Meanwhile, they sweat, swat at mosquitoes and.
... Vietnamese troops to launch an allout offensive that would drive them across the border into Thailand. And some wait to learn where the next steps in their miserable lives will lead them. Meanwhile, they sweat, swat at mosquitoes and.
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... 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 diets are rich in fatty foods. Their obesity serves as an emblem of ...
... 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 diets are rich in fatty foods. Their obesity serves as an emblem of ...
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... Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, and Malaysia. Each time he ventured out of his palace, he put on a spectacular display of majesty. The best surviving account of life there comes from Zhou Daguan, a Chinese chronicler who visited in 1295 and ...
... Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, and Malaysia. Each time he ventured out of his palace, he put on a spectacular display of majesty. The best surviving account of life there comes from Zhou Daguan, a Chinese chronicler who visited in 1295 and ...
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... Thailand with eight of his House colleagues. It was one of his first “codels,” as congressional delegations abroad are known. Solarz and the others were members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and their role on the codel was to ...
... Thailand with eight of his House colleagues. It was one of his first “codels,” as congressional delegations abroad are known. Solarz and the others were members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and their role on the codel was to ...
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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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