Tuesday, May 24, 2005
Facing Death in Cambodia by Peter Maguire.
Maguire uses his academic war crimes background to explain how the Khmer Rouge leaders who led over 2 million Cambodians to their deaths were not held accountable for their actions. He travels to Cambodia several times over the course of a decade and interviews those who had served a role in the Cambodian Khmer Rouge period, including many who served at Tuol Sleng prison, where many Cambodians were kept until they met their end.
Maguire finds out what sounds as if it would be a conclusion too easy to achieve: that Western governments propped up the Khmer Rouge because they thought the threat of Vietnamese communism was greater. In the end, Maguire finds that the Khmer Rouge stayed in power because Western globalism superceded human rights.
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