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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... Twining, marveled at the wonder of Cambodia's new beginning and tended to be charitable even as the situation deteriorated. Then came Kenneth Quinn, who decided, logically enough, that he could do the most good by forming a close ...
... Twining, marveled at the wonder of Cambodia's new beginning and tended to be charitable even as the situation deteriorated. Then came Kenneth Quinn, who decided, logically enough, that he could do the most good by forming a close ...
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... writers and analysts saw this as the beginning of a horror show. Others believed they were witnessing the early days of a new, utopian society. Charles Twining, a thirtythreeyearold State Department officer, couldn't have been.
... writers and analysts saw this as the beginning of a horror show. Others believed they were witnessing the early days of a new, utopian society. Charles Twining, a thirtythreeyearold State Department officer, couldn't have been.
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... Twining to be America's “Cambodia watcher,” as they called the position, and sent him to Bangkok. When he arrived at the end of June 1975, he was quite familiar with the debate. “With the fall of Cambodia, we all knew the accounts about ...
... Twining to be America's “Cambodia watcher,” as they called the position, and sent him to Bangkok. When he arrived at the end of June 1975, he was quite familiar with the debate. “With the fall of Cambodia, we all knew the accounts about ...
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... Twining heard his first atrocity accounts, he too didn't know what to make of them. The killing and mayhem were “so tinged with chaos that the reality was hard to decipher.” In Washington, meanwhile, the State Department had another ...
... Twining heard his first atrocity accounts, he too didn't know what to make of them. The killing and mayhem were “so tinged with chaos that the reality was hard to decipher.” In Washington, meanwhile, the State Department had another ...
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... Twining knew he had to be careful. The people he was interviewing were just refugees, after all, and given the mindset back at State, their views did not count for much. Through the summer and fall of 1975, his reports were factual ...
... Twining knew he had to be careful. The people he was interviewing were just refugees, after all, and given the mindset back at State, their views did not count for much. Through the summer and fall of 1975, his reports were factual ...
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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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