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020 0231120524 (cloth)
020 0231509391 (electronic)
024 30 9780231120524
035 (OCoLC)55286777
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050 10 DS554.8|b.M34 2005
100 1 Maguire, Peter|q(Peter H.)
245 10 Facing death in Cambodia /|cPeter Maguire.
264 1 New York :|bColumbia University Press,|c[2005]
264 4 |cİ2005
300 261 pages :|billustrations ;|c24 cm
336 text|btxt|2rdacontent
337 unmediated|bn|2rdamedia
338 volume|bnc|2rdacarrier
504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-248) and
index.
505 0 "So you've been to school for a year or two..." -- "Do not
kill any living creature, with the exception of the enemy"
-- The angkar is more important to me than my father and
mother" -- "The weapon of the mouth" -- "Only the third
person knows" -- "I am excellent survivor" -- "Am I a
savage person?" -- "She is nice girl, but she is sick" --
"I am no longer HIV positive" -- "I am not dead, I am
alive."
520 The Khmer Rouge regime took control of Cambodia by force
of arms, then murdered at least 1.5 million people between
1975 and 1979. Yet no individuals were ever tried or
punished. Maguire documents the atrocities and the
aftermath through personal interviews with victims and
perpetrators, discussions with international and NGO
officials, journalistic accounts, and government sources
gathered during a ten-year odyssey in search of answers.
According to Maguire, Cambodia holds the key to
understanding why recent UN interventions throughout the
world have failed to prevent atrocities and to enforce
treaties. Was the Cambodian genocide a preview of the
genocidal civil wars that would follow in the wake of the
Cold War? Is international justice an attainable idea or a
fiction superimposed over an unbearably dark reality?--
From publisher description.
650 0 Political atrocities|zCambodia.
650 0 Trials (Genocide)|zCambodia.
651 0 Cambodia|xHistory|y1975-1979.
948 MARCIVE Processed 2014
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948 jlee1 04/22 oclc worldcat holding update
