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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... United Nations occupied Cambodia. The state became a UN protectorate—the first and last time the United Nations tried anything so ambitious. The UN deployed 16,000 troops and 5,000 civil administrators. It ran the country for two years ...
... United Nations occupied Cambodia. The state became a UN protectorate—the first and last time the United Nations tried anything so ambitious. The UN deployed 16,000 troops and 5,000 civil administrators. It ran the country for two years ...
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... United Nations had bestowed? As it turned out, in the twenty-first century a corrupt, autocratic leader was running the country. The United Nations, in hindsight, had overestimated its ability to effect democratic change. Cambodia was ...
... United Nations had bestowed? As it turned out, in the twenty-first century a corrupt, autocratic leader was running the country. The United Nations, in hindsight, had overestimated its ability to effect democratic change. Cambodia was ...
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... United States. Its goal was to drive the Vietnamese and their appointed government, including Hun Sen, out of the ... Nations was still there, running a phalanx of charitable organizations—UNICEF, UNESCO, the World Food Program (WFP), and the ...
... United States. Its goal was to drive the Vietnamese and their appointed government, including Hun Sen, out of the ... Nations was still there, running a phalanx of charitable organizations—UNICEF, UNESCO, the World Food Program (WFP), and the ...
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... UN. In fact, in time, 2,000 different donors and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) set up shop in Cambodia. As the ... United States and other Western nations had lined up behind the lone remaining opposition leader of any consequence ...
... UN. In fact, in time, 2,000 different donors and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) set up shop in Cambodia. As the ... United States and other Western nations had lined up behind the lone remaining opposition leader of any consequence ...
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... United Nations had invested years of effort and $3 billion but then dropped the matter—except to continue bragging about its success, even as Cambodia's leaders fell back into old patterns of selfinterested turpitude. As a result, even ...
... United Nations had invested years of effort and $3 billion but then dropped the matter—except to continue bragging about its success, even as Cambodia's leaders fell back into old patterns of selfinterested turpitude. As a result, even ...
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CHAPTER TWO | 33 |
CHAPTER THREE | 53 |
CHAPTER FOUR | 69 |
CHAPTER FIVE | 87 |
CHAPTER SIX | 105 |
CHAPTER SEVEN | 133 |
CHAPTER THIRTEEN | 245 |
CHAPTER FOURTEEN | 265 |
CHAPTER FIFTEEN | 287 |
CHAPTER SIXTEEN | 311 |
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN | 337 |
EPILOGUE | 347 |
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 359 |
NOTES | 361 |
CHAPTER EIGHT | 155 |
CHAPTER NINE | 171 |
CHAPTER TEN | 189 |
CHAPTER ELEVEN | 207 |
CHAPTER TWELVE | 221 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 367 |
INDEX | 369 |
ABOUT THE AUTHOR AND PHOTOGRAPHER | 385 |
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