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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... months after Saigon fell, Communist insurgents known as the Khmer Rouge overthrew Lon Nol, the military dictator who had been Washington's man in Phnom Penh. Today the story of the Khmer Rouge crimes is well known. Two million ...
... months after Saigon fell, Communist insurgents known as the Khmer Rouge overthrew Lon Nol, the military dictator who had been Washington's man in Phnom Penh. Today the story of the Khmer Rouge crimes is well known. Two million ...
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... months that followed, tens of thousands of refugees stumbled toward Thailand, bringing with them deadly diseases, emaciated bodies, and stories so terrible they were hard to believe—the world's first clear image of the Khmer Rouge ...
... months that followed, tens of thousands of refugees stumbled toward Thailand, bringing with them deadly diseases, emaciated bodies, and stories so terrible they were hard to believe—the world's first clear image of the Khmer Rouge ...
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... month, but just a few grams.” Millions cannot afford to buy enough food to provide even the minimum daily caloric count, roughly 2,000 calories, to avoid malnutrition. So children suffer stunting—a failure to develop physically or ...
... month, but just a few grams.” Millions cannot afford to buy enough food to provide even the minimum daily caloric count, roughly 2,000 calories, to avoid malnutrition. So children suffer stunting—a failure to develop physically or ...
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... months of training. He and his colleagues had heard the rumors of mass killings. “But we kept saying, 'Cambodians are not going to kill other Cambodians.' We just couldn't believe that. The government had just fallen. Maybe they'd kill ...
... months of training. He and his colleagues had heard the rumors of mass killings. “But we kept saying, 'Cambodians are not going to kill other Cambodians.' We just couldn't believe that. The government had just fallen. Maybe they'd kill ...
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... months after the fall of Phnom Penh, Twining was beginning to hear stories so terrible he wasn't sure he believed them. Two Cambodians who had worked for the Catholic Relief Service in Phnom Penh before the Khmer Rouge came to power ...
... months after the fall of Phnom Penh, Twining was beginning to hear stories so terrible he wasn't sure he believed them. Two Cambodians who had worked for the Catholic Relief Service in Phnom Penh before the Khmer Rouge came to power ...
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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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