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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... leaders or oligarchs, no one who had anything much to protect. The people embraced the democratic changes Western occupiers brought along, and no one of note with wealth or power was left to stand in the way. That's why those ...
... leaders or oligarchs, no one who had anything much to protect. The people embraced the democratic changes Western occupiers brought along, and no one of note with wealth or power was left to stand in the way. That's why those ...
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... leaders were grappling for power, as if the UN election had never taken place. Their contest lasted many years. The troops may have left, but the United Nations was still there, running a phalanx of charitable organizations—UNICEF ...
... leaders were grappling for power, as if the UN election had never taken place. Their contest lasted many years. The troops may have left, but the United Nations was still there, running a phalanx of charitable organizations—UNICEF ...
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... leader of any consequence, Sam Rainsy. He talked the talk of a democrat but was far more popular in Washington than ... leaders fell back into old patterns of selfinterested turpitude. As a result, even today, Cambodians remain the most ...
... leader of any consequence, Sam Rainsy. He talked the talk of a democrat but was far more popular in Washington than ... leaders fell back into old patterns of selfinterested turpitude. As a result, even today, Cambodians remain the most ...
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... leader why the nation remains so stagnant while most of its neighbors prosper, and he will blame the Khmer Rouge years. “We are a wartorn country just now standing up from the ashes,” Nam Tum, chairman of the provincial council in ...
... leader why the nation remains so stagnant while most of its neighbors prosper, and he will blame the Khmer Rouge years. “We are a wartorn country just now standing up from the ashes,” Nam Tum, chairman of the provincial council in ...
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... leaders on trial. But so much time had passed that the leaders were old and frail. Some of them were likely to pass away before they could stand trial. Pol Pot was already long dead. At the same time, though, Vietnam's experience over ...
... leaders on trial. But so much time had passed that the leaders were old and frail. Some of them were likely to pass away before they could stand trial. Pol Pot was already long dead. At the same time, though, Vietnam's experience over ...
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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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