The Killing of Cambodia: Geography, Genocide and the Unmaking of Space [Hardcover]

The Killing of Cambodia: Geography, Genocide and the Unmaking of Space [Hardcover]

The Killing of Cambodia: Geography, Genocide and the Unmaking of Space [Hardcover]

Author: James A. Tyner Publisher: Ashgate Publishing Date: 2008 Hardcover: 228 pages Language: English ISBN-10: 0754670961 ISBN-13: 978-0754670964 Format: Hardcover Product Dimensions: 6.3 x 9.2 inches Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds Buy at Amazon

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Between 1975 and 1978, the Khmer Rouge carried out genocide in Cambodia unparalleled in modern history. Approximately 2 million died - almost one quarter of the population. Taking an explicitly geographical approach, and a starting point that 'geo-graphy' concerns the writing of space, this book suggests that the Khmer Rouge's activities not only led to genocide, but terracide - the erasure of space.In the Cambodia of 1975, the landscape would reveal vestiges of an indigenous precolonial Khmer society, a French colonialism and American intervention. The Khmer Rouge, however, were not content with retaining the past inscriptions of previous modes of production and spatial practices. Instead, they attempted to erase time and space to create their own utopian vision of a communal society. The Khmer Rouge's erasing and reshaping of space was only a part of a consistent ignorance, neglect and sacrifice of Cambodia and its people - each previous foreign influence also is seen to have attempted not only to rewrite history, but reproduce geography.While focusing on Cambodia, the book provides a clearer geographic understanding to genocide in general and insights into the importance of spatial factors in geopolitical conflict.

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Author: James A. Tyner Publisher: Ashgate Publishing Date: 2008 Hardcover: 228 pages Language: English ISBN-10: 0754670961 ISBN-13: 978-0754670964 Format: Hardcover Product Dimensions: 6.3 x 9.2 inches Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds Buy at Amazon

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Between 1975 and 1978, the Khmer Rouge carried out genocide in Cambodia unparalleled in modern history. Approximately 2 million died - almost one quarter of the population. Taking an explicitly geographical approach, and a starting point that 'geo-graphy' concerns the writing of space, this book suggests that the Khmer Rouge's activities not only led to genocide, but terracide - the erasure of space.In the Cambodia of 1975, the landscape would reveal vestiges of an indigenous precolonial Khmer society, a French colonialism and American intervention. The Khmer Rouge, however, were not content with retaining the past inscriptions of previous modes of production and spatial practices. Instead, they attempted to erase time and space to create their own utopian vision of a communal society. The Khmer Rouge's erasing and reshaping of space was only a part of a consistent ignorance, neglect and sacrifice of Cambodia and its people - each previous foreign influence also is seen to have attempted not only to rewrite history, but reproduce geography.While focusing on Cambodia, the book provides a clearer geographic understanding to genocide in general and insights into the importance of spatial factors in geopolitical conflict.

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Getting Away With Genocide: Cambodia's Long Struggle Against the Khmer Rouge [Paperback]

Getting Away With Genocide: Cambodia's Long Struggle Against the Khmer Rouge [Paperback]

Getting Away With Genocide: Cambodia's Long Struggle Against the Khmer Rouge [Paperback]

Author: Tom Fawthrop, Helen Jarvis Publisher: Pluto Press Publishing Date: 2004 Paperback: 350 pages Language: English ISBN-10: 0745320279 ISBN-13: 978-0745320274 Format: Paperback, Hardcover Product Dimensions: 0.7 x 5.3 x 8.3 inches Shipping Weight: 14.1 ounces Buy at Amazon

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This book covers the history of Cambodia since 1979 and the various attempts by the US and China to stop the Cambodian people from bringing the Khmer Rouge to justice. After Vietnam ousted the hated Khmer Rouge regime, much of the evidence needed for a full-scale tribunal became available. In 1979 the US and UK governments, rather than working for human rights justice and setting up a special tribunal, opted instead to back the Khmer Rouge at the UN, and approved the re-supply of Pol Pot's army in Thailand. Tom Fawthrop and Helen Jarvis reveal why it took 18 years for the UN to recognise the mass murder and crimes against humanity that took place under the Killing Fields regime from 1975-78. They explore in detail the role of the UN and the various countries involved, and they assess what chance still remains of holding a Cambodian trial under international law - especially in the light of the recent development of International Criminal Tribunals for Rwanda and the Former Yugoslavia.

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Author: Tom Fawthrop, Helen Jarvis Publisher: Pluto Press Publishing Date: 2004 Paperback: 350 pages Language: English ISBN-10: 0745320279 ISBN-13: 978-0745320274 Format: Paperback, Hardcover Product Dimensions: 0.7 x 5.3 x 8.3 inches Shipping Weight: 14.1 ounces Buy at Amazon

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This book covers the history of Cambodia since 1979 and the various attempts by the US and China to stop the Cambodian people from bringing the Khmer Rouge to justice. After Vietnam ousted the hated Khmer Rouge regime, much of the evidence needed for a full-scale tribunal became available. In 1979 the US and UK governments, rather than working for human rights justice and setting up a special tribunal, opted instead to back the Khmer Rouge at the UN, and approved the re-supply of Pol Pot's army in Thailand. Tom Fawthrop and Helen Jarvis reveal why it took 18 years for the UN to recognise the mass murder and crimes against humanity that took place under the Killing Fields regime from 1975-78. They explore in detail the role of the UN and the various countries involved, and they assess what chance still remains of holding a Cambodian trial under international law - especially in the light of the recent development of International Criminal Tribunals for Rwanda and the Former Yugoslavia.

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Genocide and Democracy in Cambodia: The Khmer Rouge, the U.N., and the International Community [Paperback]

Genocide and Democracy in Cambodia: The Khmer Rouge, the U.N., and the International Community [Paperback]

Genocide and Democracy in Cambodia: The Khmer Rouge, the U.N., and the International Community [Paperback]

Author: Ben Kiernan (Editor) Publisher: Yale Univ Southeast Asia Studies Publishing Date: 1993 Paperback: 335 pages Language: English ISBN-10: 0938692496 ISBN-13: 978-0938692492 Format: Paperback, Hardcover Series: Southeast Asia Studies Monograph Series Product Dimensions: 0.1 x 6.3 x 9.2 inches Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds Buy at Amazon

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Proceedings of the 1992 Raphael Lemkin Symosium, co-published with the Schell Center for International Human Rights, Yale Law School. Specialists from seven disciplines examine the record of the Khmer Rouge, and the international community's involvement with the affairs of the country. In particular the book examines the capacity, responsibility and performance of the international community under international law, and the responsibility or accountability, if any, of the Khmer Rouge for the policies and practices of the Khmer Rouge period. Preface by George Andreopoulos, Schell Center, Yale Law School. Introduction by Ben Kiernan, Department of History, Yale University..

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Author: Ben Kiernan (Editor) Publisher: Yale Univ Southeast Asia Studies Publishing Date: 1993 Paperback: 335 pages Language: English ISBN-10: 0938692496 ISBN-13: 978-0938692492 Format: Paperback, Hardcover Series: Southeast Asia Studies Monograph Series Product Dimensions: 0.1 x 6.3 x 9.2 inches Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds Buy at Amazon

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Proceedings of the 1992 Raphael Lemkin Symosium, co-published with the Schell Center for International Human Rights, Yale Law School. Specialists from seven disciplines examine the record of the Khmer Rouge, and the international community's involvement with the affairs of the country. In particular the book examines the capacity, responsibility and performance of the international community under international law, and the responsibility or accountability, if any, of the Khmer Rouge for the policies and practices of the Khmer Rouge period. Preface by George Andreopoulos, Schell Center, Yale Law School. Introduction by Ben Kiernan, Department of History, Yale University..

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Revolution and Genocide in Ethiopia and Cambodia [Paperback]

Revolution and Genocide in Ethiopia and Cambodia [Paperback]

Revolution and Genocide in Ethiopia and Cambodia [Paperback]

Author: Edward Kissi Publisher: Lexington Books Publishing Date: 2006 Paperback: 216 pages Language: English ISBN-10: 0739112635 ISBN-13: 978-0739112632 Format: Paperback, Hardcover Product Dimensions: 0.6 x 6 x 8.9 inches Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces Buy at Amazon

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Revolution and Genocide in Ethiopia and Cambodia is the first comparative study of the Ethiopian and Cambodian revolutions of the early 1970s. One of the few comparative studies of genocide in the developing world, this book presents some of the key arguments in traditional genocide scholarship, but the book's author, Edward Kissi, takes a different position, arguing that the Cambodian genocide and the atrocious crimes in Ethiopia had very different motives.

Kissi's findings reveal that genocide was a tactic specifically chosen by Cambodia's Khmer Rouge to intentionally and systematically annihilate certain ethnic and religious groups, whereas Ethiopia's Dergue resorted to terror and political killing in the effort to retain power. Revolution and Genocide in Ethiopia and Cambodia demonstrates that the extent to which revolutionary states turn to policies of genocide depends greatly on how they acquire their power and what domestic and international opposition they face. This is an important and intriguing book for students of African and Asian history and those interested in the study of genocide.

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Author: Edward Kissi Publisher: Lexington Books Publishing Date: 2006 Paperback: 216 pages Language: English ISBN-10: 0739112635 ISBN-13: 978-0739112632 Format: Paperback, Hardcover Product Dimensions: 0.6 x 6 x 8.9 inches Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces Buy at Amazon

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Revolution and Genocide in Ethiopia and Cambodia is the first comparative study of the Ethiopian and Cambodian revolutions of the early 1970s. One of the few comparative studies of genocide in the developing world, this book presents some of the key arguments in traditional genocide scholarship, but the book's author, Edward Kissi, takes a different position, arguing that the Cambodian genocide and the atrocious crimes in Ethiopia had very different motives.

Kissi's findings reveal that genocide was a tactic specifically chosen by Cambodia's Khmer Rouge to intentionally and systematically annihilate certain ethnic and religious groups, whereas Ethiopia's Dergue resorted to terror and political killing in the effort to retain power. Revolution and Genocide in Ethiopia and Cambodia demonstrates that the extent to which revolutionary states turn to policies of genocide depends greatly on how they acquire their power and what domestic and international opposition they face. This is an important and intriguing book for students of African and Asian history and those interested in the study of genocide.

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