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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... percent of Cambodia's teachers were killed and 95 percent of the doctors, along with almost everyone else who had an education. Cambodia, as Pol Pot liked to say, was returned to year zero. But in the autumn of 1979, little of this was ...
... percent of Cambodia's teachers were killed and 95 percent of the doctors, along with almost everyone else who had an education. Cambodia, as Pol Pot liked to say, was returned to year zero. But in the autumn of 1979, little of this was ...
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... percent of the electorate voted. The UN claimed that showed a hunger for democracy. Once the new government took office, the UN pulled out. No other nation had ever been given a chance like that. The world had come together out of guilt ...
... percent of the electorate voted. The UN claimed that showed a hunger for democracy. Once the new government took office, the UN pulled out. No other nation had ever been given a chance like that. The world had come together out of guilt ...
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... percent of the nation's women could not read or write. She's thirtysix, and her eightyearold daughter, a first grader, sits on a bench behind her mother doing her homework—Khmerlanguage workbook exercises. If this little girl lives true ...
... percent of the nation's women could not read or write. She's thirtysix, and her eightyearold daughter, a first grader, sits on a bench behind her mother doing her homework—Khmerlanguage workbook exercises. If this little girl lives true ...
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... percent of the nation's 13.4 million people live in rural areas, more or less as she does. Paul Mason, a social worker, has worked in Cambodia for nearly two decades, and he recalls standing with a colleague beside a harvested rice ...
... percent of the nation's 13.4 million people live in rural areas, more or less as she does. Paul Mason, a social worker, has worked in Cambodia for nearly two decades, and he recalls standing with a colleague beside a harvested rice ...
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... percent” of the children “in five years.” In the meantime, almost one child in ten dies before reaching the age of five of either illness or malnutrition. Cambodia's child mortality rate is 60 percent higher than in Vietnam or Thailand ...
... percent” of the children “in five years.” In the meantime, almost one child in ten dies before reaching the age of five of either illness or malnutrition. Cambodia's child mortality rate is 60 percent higher than in Vietnam or Thailand ...
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CHAPTER THIRTEEN | |
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CHAPTER SEVENTEEN | |
Acknowledgements | |
ABOUT THE AUTHOR AND PHOTOGRAPHER | |
CHAPTER ELEVEN | |
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