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Genocide and Resistance in Southeast Asia Documentation, Denial, and Justice in Cambodia and East Timor
By Ben Kiernan
Copyright 2008
364 Pages
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Routledge
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Two modern cases of genocide and extermination began in Southeast Asia in the same year. Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge regime ruled Cambodia from 1975 to 1979, and Indonesian forces occupied East Timor from 1975 to 1999. This book examines the horrific consequences of Cambodian communist revolution and Indonesian anti-communist counterinsurgency. It also chronicles the two cases of indigenous resistance... Read more
Acknowledgements, Preface, Introduction, Part 1: Genocide and Resistance, 1. Wild Chickens, Farm Chickens, and Cormorants: Cambodia’s Eastern Zone under Pol Pot, 2. Rebel Revolutionaries: Interviews with Chea Sim and Heng Samrin, 3. Genocide, Extermination and Resistance in East Timor, 1975-1999: Comparative Reflections on Cambodia, 4. The Resistance in East Timor: The UN-Sponsored Truth Commission Analysis, Part 2: Description, Documentation, Denial, and Justice, 5. Grappling with Genocide, 1978-79, 6. Advocating Accountability, 1980-90, 7. Bringing the Khmer Rouge to Justice, 8. Cover-Up and Denial of Genocide: Australia, East Timor, and the Aborigines, 9. The Demography of Genocide in Southeast Asia: The Death Tolls in Cambodia, 1975-79, and East Timor, 1975-80, Part 3: War and Recovery: Reporting from Cambodia, 1979-90, 10. Reports from the Thai-Cambodian Border, 1979, 11. War and Peace in Post-Genocide Cambodia, Bibliography, Index
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