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| Title | : | Genocide and Resistance in Southeast Asia: Documentation, Denial, and Justice in Cambodia and East Timor |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.60 (911 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1412806690 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 363 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-08-26 |
| Language | : | English |
"Outstanding comparative study by a leading scholar" according to Trjgirl. Leave it to a right wing fanatic like Mr. Aaron Crandall to try to use nothing less than genocide to try to score partisan points.Supporter? Give us a break! In fact Mr. Crandall should apologize for outright lying.Nowhere did Kiernan "support" the Khmer Rouge, just doubted reports because the American gov't had lied so often about Vietnam. And this is a scholar who does more for telling the truth about genocide in a day than you will ever do your whole sad life.Anyone wanting an understanding of either ge. This is one of my texts for a human rights This is one of my texts for a human rights class taught by a past chair of the board of directors of Amnesty International. The author is the leading expert in the Khmer Rouge and is a distinguished professor at Yale, not a former Khmer Rouge supporter. The book is thorough and insightful in its treatment of the human rights violations in Southeast Asia. You will be hard pressed to find a more elucidative book on the topic. Please take the other review from a few years ago with a grain of salt. All they di. Aaron Crandall said Former Khmer Rouge supporter now expert on genocide. Give me a break!. "There is ample evidence in Cambodian and other sources that the Khmer Rouge movement is not the monster that the press have recently made it out to be. Ben Kiernan - "Cambodia in the News; 1975-76. Melbourne Journal of Politics. 1976.Did the new government plan and approve a systematic largescale purge? There is little evidence that they did. Apart from the execution of high-ranking army officers and officials, the killing reported by refugees from the northwest since April 1975 was instigated by untraine
Whitney Griswold Professor of History, professor of international and area studies, and director of the Genocide Studies Program at Yale University (yale/gsp). He is the author of How Pol Pot Came to Power, The Pol Pot Regime, and Blood and Soil: A World History of Genocide and Exterminatiion from Sparta to Darfur.. Ben Kierna
A must read for all concerned with the early detection of genocide." --Peter Carey, author of East Timor at the Crossroads and professor of history, Trinity College, Oxford University . Kiernan's comparative analysis with the Indonesian occupation of East Timor is especially valuable. A must read for all concerned with the early detection of genocide." Peter Carey, author of East Timor at the Crossroads and professor of history, Trinity College, Oxford University"This book represents the distilled wisdom of a lifetime's research by the world's leading expert on the Khmer Rouge regime. Kiernan's comparative analysis with the Indonesian occupation of East Timor is especially valuable. "This book represents the distilled wisdom of a lifetime's research by the world's leading expert on the Khmer Rouge regime
It also chronicles the two cases of indigenous resistance to genocide and extermination, the international cover-ups that obstructed documentation of these crimes, and efforts to hold the perpetrators legally accountable.The perpetrator regimes inflicted casualties in similar proportions. Yet the ideological fuel that ignited each conflagration was quite different. Each caused the deaths of about one-fifth of the population of the nation. Cambodia's mortality was approximately 1.7 million, and approximately 170,000 perished in East Timor. This book examines the horrific consequences of Cambodian communist revolution and Indonesian anti-communist counterinsurgency. Both regimes exterminated ethnic minorities, including local Chinese, as well as political dissiden
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