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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... government officials reported on what was happening, but hardly anyone in the Title Page Dedication PREFACE.
... government officials reported on what was happening, but hardly anyone in the Title Page Dedication PREFACE.
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... officials enrich themselves on public proceeds and live in mansions the size of small hotels. They say little when the government tramples on their rights and constitutional guarantees. They seem not to notice as their police and ...
... officials enrich themselves on public proceeds and live in mansions the size of small hotels. They say little when the government tramples on their rights and constitutional guarantees. They seem not to notice as their police and ...
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... officials.” Historians of Cambodia, drawing on texts like Zhou's and the friezes at Angkor, conclude that the king sold positions in his government ... official, until finally the bulk of it was delivered to the royal palace. No one ever ...
... officials.” Historians of Cambodia, drawing on texts like Zhou's and the friezes at Angkor, conclude that the king sold positions in his government ... official, until finally the bulk of it was delivered to the royal palace. No one ever ...
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... officials only know how to bribe and be bribed. Offices are sold. Nobody ... government positions to his mandarins. Once ensconced, these aides would be ... government administration. Most were illiterate. The very idea of working on ...
... officials only know how to bribe and be bribed. Offices are sold. Nobody ... government positions to his mandarins. Once ensconced, these aides would be ... government administration. Most were illiterate. The very idea of working on ...
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... government bureaucracy, one French administrator described it as “wormeaten debris,” historian John Tully wrote. As ever, the government's legal and administrative officials were dedicated only to enriching themselves. The French ...
... government bureaucracy, one French administrator described it as “wormeaten debris,” historian John Tully wrote. As ever, the government's legal and administrative officials were dedicated only to enriching themselves. The French ...
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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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