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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... Vietnam's experience over the same period complicates Nam Tum's argument. Vietnam suffered a devastating war with the United States in the 1960s and '70s that killed 3 million Vietnamese and destroyed most of the nation's infrastructure ...
... Vietnam's experience over the same period complicates Nam Tum's argument. Vietnam suffered a devastating war with the United States in the 1960s and '70s that killed 3 million Vietnamese and destroyed most of the nation's infrastructure ...
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... Vietnam stands at seventy-four years. In Cambodia it is sixty-one, one of the lowest in the world. (In the United States it is seventy-eight years.) Most Vietnamese students stay in school until at least the tenth grade. By the tenth ...
... Vietnam stands at seventy-four years. In Cambodia it is sixty-one, one of the lowest in the world. (In the United States it is seventy-eight years.) Most Vietnamese students stay in school until at least the tenth grade. By the tenth ...
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... Vietnam during the Vietnam War—the U.S. Air Force pummeled the nation with 15 million tons of bombs and other munitions—nearly all of that was used in the North, while American aid workers and diplomats spent millions of dollars aiding ...
... Vietnam during the Vietnam War—the U.S. Air Force pummeled the nation with 15 million tons of bombs and other munitions—nearly all of that was used in the North, while American aid workers and diplomats spent millions of dollars aiding ...
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... Vietnam border. “On our side, the ground was all brown and cracked,” he recalled. “Over the border, just meters away, were these verdant green fields.” Today, more than 90 percent of Cambodia's roads remain unpaved. Cambodian farmers ...
... Vietnam border. “On our side, the ground was all brown and cracked,” he recalled. “Over the border, just meters away, were these verdant green fields.” Today, more than 90 percent of Cambodia's roads remain unpaved. Cambodian farmers ...
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... Vietnam, and Malaysia. Each time he ventured out of his palace, he put on a spectacular display of majesty. The best surviving account of life there comes from Zhou Daguan, a Chinese chronicler who visited in 1295 and 1296. “All of his ...
... Vietnam, and Malaysia. Each time he ventured out of his palace, he put on a spectacular display of majesty. The best surviving account of life there comes from Zhou Daguan, a Chinese chronicler who visited in 1295 and 1296. “All of his ...
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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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