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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... million Cambodians, one-quarter of the nation's population, were killed during Pol Pot's three and one-half years in power. He willfully destroyed every fixture and totem of twentieth-century life. Eighty percent of Cambodia's teachers ...
... million Cambodians, one-quarter of the nation's population, were killed during Pol Pot's three and one-half years in power. He willfully destroyed every fixture and totem of twentieth-century life. Eighty percent of Cambodia's teachers ...
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... million Cambodians have been caught between the two since 1975. About 3 million are already dead, and many who remain alive could die soon from disease or starvation. The lucky ones are the million or so Cambodians who escaped the grip ...
... million Cambodians have been caught between the two since 1975. About 3 million are already dead, and many who remain alive could die soon from disease or starvation. The lucky ones are the million or so Cambodians who escaped the grip ...
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... gave Cambodia a constitution that afforded the people—5 million Khmer Rouge survivors—all the human rights and privileges of a modern democratic state. Then the UN staged elections. To everyone's surprise, 90 percent of xiv | PREFACE.
... gave Cambodia a constitution that afforded the people—5 million Khmer Rouge survivors—all the human rights and privileges of a modern democratic state. Then the UN staged elections. To everyone's surprise, 90 percent of xiv | PREFACE.
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... millions of dollars, year after year— even as the nation headed for a 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 ...
... millions of dollars, year after year— even as the nation headed for a 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 ...
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... million people died. As a result, visitors often smile as they watch ordinary Cambodians go about their lives in relative tranquility. “People in America,” Ambassador Mussomeli observed, “all they know of Cambodia is the Khmer Rouge ...
... million people died. As a result, visitors often smile as they watch ordinary Cambodians go about their lives in relative tranquility. “People in America,” Ambassador Mussomeli observed, “all they know of Cambodia is the Khmer Rouge ...
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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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