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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... village monks who taught the principles of Buddhism and not much else. The state had not a single middle school ... villages do have a school now, and every region has its health clinic. But little else has changed. A few miles south of ...
... village monks who taught the principles of Buddhism and not much else. The state had not a single middle school ... villages do have a school now, and every region has its health clinic. But little else has changed. A few miles south of ...
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... villages.” With no education, the buyers, eager for this new mobility, may not fully realize the implications until ... village chief of a small settlement in eastern Cambodia, near the Vietnam border. He had just turned on his little ...
... villages.” With no education, the buyers, eager for this new mobility, may not fully realize the implications until ... village chief of a small settlement in eastern Cambodia, near the Vietnam border. He had just turned on his little ...
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... Village monks taught children that, after they left the pagoda school when they were seven or eight years old, their only course was to make their life in the rice paddies, as everyone in their family had done for generations. The two ...
... Village monks taught children that, after they left the pagoda school when they were seven or eight years old, their only course was to make their life in the rice paddies, as everyone in their family had done for generations. The two ...
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... village was called out to watch the execution of a couple” by the Khmer Rouge. “Nobody reacted. Everybody was passive. That is how you survived. You pretend to be deaf.” Then, after the war, “people were hiding their past behavior. To ...
... village was called out to watch the execution of a couple” by the Khmer Rouge. “Nobody reacted. Everybody was passive. That is how you survived. You pretend to be deaf.” Then, after the war, “people were hiding their past behavior. To ...
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... villages,” Zhou wrote. “When they met people out at night, they snared their head with a rope and took out their gall ... village chief, Mou Neam, does not hesitate when asked what the government does for him now. “The roads, the bridges ...
... villages,” Zhou wrote. “When they met people out at night, they snared their head with a rope and took out their gall ... village chief, Mou Neam, does not hesitate when asked what the government does for him now. “The roads, the bridges ...
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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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