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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... ambassadors arrived with a different point of view. The horrors of the Pol Pot era had receded from memory, replaced by more recent genocidal moments in Rwanda, Bosnia, Darfur. So these later ambassadors, particularly Kent Wiedemann ...
... ambassadors arrived with a different point of view. The horrors of the Pol Pot era had receded from memory, replaced by more recent genocidal moments in Rwanda, Bosnia, Darfur. So these later ambassadors, particularly Kent Wiedemann ...
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... ambassador to Cambodia, he would adopt a melodramatic tone as he told them: “Be careful because Cambodia is the most dangerous place you will ever visit. You will fall in love with it, and eventually it will break your heart.” Yes ...
... ambassador to Cambodia, he would adopt a melodramatic tone as he told them: “Be careful because Cambodia is the most dangerous place you will ever visit. You will fall in love with it, and eventually it will break your heart.” Yes ...
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... ambassador to Cambodia in 1999, observed that the average Burmese “were actually more productive and much better off on a material basis than the rural people in Cambodia—even though the Burmese are under a much worse political regime ...
... ambassador to Cambodia in 1999, observed that the average Burmese “were actually more productive and much better off on a material basis than the rural people in Cambodia—even though the Burmese are under a much worse political regime ...
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... ambassador to Washington, offered an example. His family, he said, was respected in their village, but in 1978 the Khmer Rouge ordered the family killed. Villagers made a deal with the soldiers: Kill another family instead. And, sure ...
... ambassador to Washington, offered an example. His family, he said, was respected in their village, but in 1978 the Khmer Rouge ordered the family killed. Villagers made a deal with the soldiers: Kill another family instead. And, sure ...
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... in Paris at the Cambodian ambassador's residence. With Baker was John Bolton, then an assistant secretary of state. “It was 10 a.m., and he was serving champagne,” Bolton remembered with obvious disgust. “He reached down.
... in Paris at the Cambodian ambassador's residence. With Baker was John Bolton, then an assistant secretary of state. “It was 10 a.m., and he was serving champagne,” Bolton remembered with obvious disgust. “He reached down.
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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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