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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... killed during Pol Pot's three and onehalf years in power. He willfully destroyed every fixture and totem of twentiethcentury life. Eighty percent of Cambodia's teachers were killed and 95 percent of the doctors, along with almost ...
... killed during Pol Pot's three and onehalf years in power. He willfully destroyed every fixture and totem of twentiethcentury life. Eighty percent of Cambodia's teachers were killed and 95 percent of the doctors, along with almost ...
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... killed 3 million Vietnamese and destroyed most of the nation's infrastructure, just as the Khmer Rouge (and the American bombing of eastern provinces) did in Cambodia. The war in Vietnam ended just four years before the Khmer Rouge ...
... killed 3 million Vietnamese and destroyed most of the nation's infrastructure, just as the Khmer Rouge (and the American bombing of eastern provinces) did in Cambodia. The war in Vietnam ended just four years before the Khmer Rouge ...
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... killed, and much of the infrastructure was destroyed or fell into disrepair. Since 1979, however, that infrastructure has been rebuilt. In truth, though, the nation was quite primitive on April 17, 1975, when Pol Pot's army marched into ...
... killed, and much of the infrastructure was destroyed or fell into disrepair. Since 1979, however, that infrastructure has been rebuilt. In truth, though, the nation was quite primitive on April 17, 1975, when Pol Pot's army marched into ...
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... killing fields. Sometimes I hear people say they had a narrow escape. Then I think of my neighbor, arrested and taken away and killed. I see it in the daytime, and I dream it in the nighttime. He looks up at the ceiling and sounds at ...
... killing fields. Sometimes I hear people say they had a narrow escape. Then I think of my neighbor, arrested and taken away and killed. I see it in the daytime, and I dream it in the nighttime. He looks up at the ceiling and sounds at ...
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... kill. And now you are ashamed.” Hem Heng, the Cambodian 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 ...
... kill. And now you are ashamed.” Hem Heng, the Cambodian 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 ...
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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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