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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... secretary of state for the region, Richard Solomon, grabbed the issue as his own and pushed it hard—even as some more senior officials began expressing doubts. In fact, the Cambodian “war” had ended in 1979, more xvi | PREFACE.
... secretary of state for the region, Richard Solomon, grabbed the issue as his own and pushed it hard—even as some more senior officials began expressing doubts. In fact, the Cambodian “war” had ended in 1979, more xvi | PREFACE.
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... senior government ministers. Their diets are rich in fatty foods. Their obesity serves as an emblem of their wealth—just as it did for kings and noblemen in ancient times. Thailand, Cambodia's western neighbor, has a gross domestic ...
... senior government ministers. Their diets are rich in fatty foods. Their obesity serves as an emblem of their wealth—just as it did for kings and noblemen in ancient times. Thailand, Cambodia's western neighbor, has a gross domestic ...
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... senior Agriculture Ministry official. “It depends on the people's ability to understand in terms of their own environment, education, and economics.” The Khmer Rouge fell from power in 1979. Remnants hung on through the following two ...
... senior Agriculture Ministry official. “It depends on the people's ability to understand in terms of their own environment, education, and economics.” The Khmer Rouge fell from power in 1979. Remnants hung on through the following two ...
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... senior position. But when he was eighteen years old the Khmer Rouge seized power and put him to work with hundreds of others digging an irrigation canal in Banteay Meanchey Province. Asked about that experience thirty years later, as he ...
... senior position. But when he was eighteen years old the Khmer Rouge seized power and put him to work with hundreds of others digging an irrigation canal in Banteay Meanchey Province. Asked about that experience thirty years later, as he ...
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... senior official, until finally the bulk of it was delivered to the royal palace. No one ever questioned this practice. It was part of Angkor's natural order. Hierarchy was everything. And each of Angkor's people belonged to one of only ...
... senior official, until finally the bulk of it was delivered to the royal palace. No one ever questioned this practice. It was part of Angkor's natural order. Hierarchy was everything. And each of Angkor's people belonged to one of only ...
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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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