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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... soldiers who come to rape their women. Or for Vietnamese troops to launch an allout offensive that would drive them across the border into Thailand. And some wait to learn where the next steps in their miserable lives will lead them ...
... soldiers who come to rape their women. Or for Vietnamese troops to launch an allout offensive that would drive them across the border into Thailand. And some wait to learn where the next steps in their miserable lives will lead them ...
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... soldiers executed family members. Waking to find the person lying next to you dead from starvation. In one clinical study of Cambodian refugees who came to the United States in the early 1980s and now live in Long Beach, California, 62 ...
... soldiers executed family members. Waking to find the person lying next to you dead from starvation. In one clinical study of Cambodian refugees who came to the United States in the early 1980s and now live in Long Beach, California, 62 ...
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... soldiers: Kill another family instead. And, sure enough, Hem Heng recalled, Khmer Rouge soldiers executed “a Chinese family in our place.” He frowned and looked at the floor, silent. After the war, Youk Chhang said, many people felt ...
... soldiers: Kill another family instead. And, sure enough, Hem Heng recalled, Khmer Rouge soldiers executed “a Chinese family in our place.” He frowned and looked at the floor, silent. After the war, Youk Chhang said, many people felt ...
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... soldiers forcibly evict them in the night. But then these afflictions were prominent features of Khmer society in the time of the great kings of Angkor 1,000 years ago. The lineage of larceny is clear. Far more than almost any other ...
... soldiers forcibly evict them in the night. But then these afflictions were prominent features of Khmer society in the time of the great kings of Angkor 1,000 years ago. The lineage of larceny is clear. Far more than almost any other ...
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... soldiers were gathered in front of him, with people bearing banners, musicians and drummers following behind,” he wrote. The next contingent “was made up of three to five hundred women of the palace” who carried huge candles, alight ...
... soldiers were gathered in front of him, with people bearing banners, musicians and drummers following behind,” he wrote. The next contingent “was made up of three to five hundred women of the palace” who carried huge candles, alight ...
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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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