LEADER 04415nam 22006254a 450 001 9910451633203321 005 20210603003248.0 010 $a0-231-50939-1 024 7 $a10.7312/magu12052 035 $a(CKB)1000000000457771 035 $a(EBL)908459 035 $a(OCoLC)818855978 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000152820 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11150636 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000152820 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10339852 035 $a(PQKB)10540042 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC908459 035 $a(DE-B1597)459084 035 $a(OCoLC)62145189 035 $a(OCoLC)979967606 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780231509398 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL908459 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10183612 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL853698 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000457771 100 $a20040514d2005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurun#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aFacing death in Cambodia$b[electronic resource] /$fPeter Maguire 210 $aNew York $cColumbia University Press$dc2005 215 $a1 online resource (281 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-231-12052-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 231-248) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction --$t1. "So you've been to school for a year or two . . ." --$t2. "Do not kill any living creature, with the exception of the enemy." --$t3. "The Angkar is more important to me than my father and mother." --$t4. "The weapon of the mouth" --$t5. "Only the third person knows." --$t6. "I am excellent survivor." --$t7. "Am I a savage person?" --$t8. "She is nice girl, but she is sick." --$t9. "I am no longer HIV positive." --$t10. "I am not dead. I am alive." --$tConclusion: War Crimes Trials as a Welcome Distraction --$tNotes --$tGlossary --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aThe Khmer Rouge regime took control of Cambodia by force of arms, then committed the most brazen crimes since the Third Reich: at least 1.5 million people murdered between 1975 and 1979. Yet no individuals were ever tried or punished. This book is the story of Peter Maguire's effort to learn how Cambodia's "culture of impunity" developed, why it persists, and the failures of the "international community" to confront the Cambodian genocide. Written from a personal and historical perspective, Facing Death in Cambodia recounts Maguire's growing anguish over the gap between theories of universal justice and political realities. 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. The book includes a selection of haunting pictures from among the thousands taken at the now infamous Tuol Sleng prison (also referred to as S-21), through which at least 14,000 men, women, and children passed-and from which fewer than a dozen emerged alive. What he discovered raises troubling questions: 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? Did issues of political expediency allow Cambodian leaders to escape prosecution? The Khmer Rouge violated the Nuremberg Principles, the United Nations Charter, the laws of war, and the UN Genocide Convention. Yet in the decade after the regime's collapse, the perpetrators were rescued and rehabilitated-even rewarded-by China, Thailand, the United States, and the UN. According to Peter Maguire, Cambodia holds the key to understanding why recent UN interventions throughout the world have failed to prevent atrocities and to enforce treaties. 606 $aPolitical atrocities$zCambodia 606 $aTrials (Genocide)$zCambodia 607 $aCambodia$xHistory$y1975-1979 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aPolitical atrocities 615 0$aTrials (Genocide) 676 $a959.604/2 700 $aMaguire$b Peter$g(Peter H.)$0858317 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910451633203321 996 $aFacing death in Cambodia$92487507 997 $aUNINA