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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... military dictator who had been Washington's man in Phnom Penh. Today the story of the Khmer Rouge crimes is well known. Two million Cambodians, one-quarter of the nation's population, were killed during Pol Pot's three and one-half ...
... military dictator who had been Washington's man in Phnom Penh. Today the story of the Khmer Rouge crimes is well known. Two million Cambodians, one-quarter of the nation's population, were killed during Pol Pot's three and one-half ...
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... military officer sat behind a desk. He didn't speak English either, but I showed the permit and gesticulated a question. He took the permits from us, reached into a drawer, pulled out a stamp, and stamped our forms. Jay and I looked at ...
... military officer sat behind a desk. He didn't speak English either, but I showed the permit and gesticulated a question. He took the permits from us, reached into a drawer, pulled out a stamp, and stamped our forms. Jay and I looked at ...
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... military police, who removed the license plate from the SUV.” They removed Hun Chea's license plate? A few days later I asked Cambodia's minister of information, Khieu Kanharith, about the incident. The police removed the license plate ...
... military police, who removed the license plate from the SUV.” They removed Hun Chea's license plate? A few days later I asked Cambodia's minister of information, Khieu Kanharith, about the incident. The police removed the license plate ...
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... military coup deposed him in 1970. The Khmer Rouge brought him back as their titular head of state—though he was imprisoned in his palace during their reign. Then, as the UN troops began arriving in 1992, they made him honorary king ...
... military coup deposed him in 1970. The Khmer Rouge brought him back as their titular head of state—though he was imprisoned in his palace during their reign. Then, as the UN troops began arriving in 1992, they made him honorary king ...
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... military showdown to settle the power struggle once and for all. Successive American ambassadors played their own roles. The first one, Charles Twining, marveled at the wonder of Cambodia's new beginning and tended to be charitable even ...
... military showdown to settle the power struggle once and for all. Successive American ambassadors played their own roles. The first one, Charles Twining, marveled at the wonder of Cambodia's new beginning and tended to be charitable 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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