Cambodia's curse : the modern history of a troubled land
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Cambodia's curse : the modern history of a troubled land
Black Inc., c2011
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"Frst published in the United States by PublicAffairs, a member of the Perseus Books group, 2011"--T.p. verso
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A generation after Pol Pot's regime killed one quarter of the nation's population, Cambodia shows every outward sign of having overcome its devastating history - the streets of Phnom Penh are paved; skyscrapers dot the skyline. But behind this facade lies a country still haunted by its years of terror. In 1992, the world came together to help pull the small nation out of the mire. Cambodia became a United Nations protectorate - the first and only time the UN has tried something so ambitious. What did the new, democratically elected government do with this unprecedented gift? In 2008 and 2009, Joel Brinkley - who won a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting on the fall of the Khmer Rouge - returned to Cambodia to find out. He discovered a population in the grip of a venal government. He learned that between one third and one half of Cambodians who lived through the Khmer Rouge era suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder, and that its afflictions are being passed 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 behaviour.
This is a devastating and important look at Cambodia today.
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