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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... rice, so we followed it. The driver stopped in front of a crude shelter. Inside lay dozens of sick and dying Cambodians, all wearing the black pajamas that were the communal clothing for everyone in Democratic Kampuchea, the perverse ...
... rice, so we followed it. The driver stopped in front of a crude shelter. Inside lay dozens of sick and dying Cambodians, all wearing the black pajamas that were the communal clothing for everyone in Democratic Kampuchea, the perverse ...
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... rice, pick fruit, catch fish, and live in homes built from nearby trees and vegetation. With all that plenitude there for the taking, who needs the modern world? In Saharan Africa, the Brazilian Amazon, and other remote places ...
... rice, pick fruit, catch fish, and live in homes built from nearby trees and vegetation. With all that plenitude there for the taking, who needs the modern world? In Saharan Africa, the Brazilian Amazon, and other remote places ...
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... rice paddies. Ten Keng's house is perhaps fifteen by twenty feet, one room with hardly any visible possessions, and sits on wooden poles about ten feet above the ground. There's no electricity, running water, natural or bottled gas for ...
... rice paddies. Ten Keng's house is perhaps fifteen by twenty feet, one room with hardly any visible possessions, and sits on wooden poles about ten feet above the ground. There's no electricity, running water, natural or bottled gas for ...
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... rice field a few years ago when the colleague stood on top of his car, looked around in every direction, and remarked: “It probably looked like this here 350 years ago!” In the years since, Mason says he has seen some changes. A ...
... rice field a few years ago when the colleague stood on top of his car, looked around in every direction, and remarked: “It probably looked like this here 350 years ago!” In the years since, Mason says he has seen some changes. A ...
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... rice,” said JeanPierre de Margerie, an earnest French Canadian who heads the World Food Program office here. A diet of only rice, only starch, leads to stunting, wasting. “Seventy percent have access to meat protein, on average, only ...
... rice,” said JeanPierre de Margerie, an earnest French Canadian who heads the World Food Program office here. A diet of only rice, only starch, leads to stunting, wasting. “Seventy percent have access to meat protein, on average, only ...
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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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