1st Edition

Genocide in Cambodia and Rwanda New Perspectives

By Susan E. Cook Copyright 2006
318 Pages
by Routledge

318 Pages
by Routledge

310 Pages
by Routledge

This volume deals with aspects of genocide in Rwandaand Cambodia that have been largely unexplored to date, including the impact of regional politics and the role played by social institutions in perpetrating genocide. Although the "story" of the Cambodian genocide of 1975-1979 and that of the Rwandan genocide of 1994 have been written about in detail, most have focused on how the genocides took... Read more
Introduction; Peasant Ideology and Genocide in Rwanda Under Habyarimana; The Khmer Rouge and the Vietnamese Communists: A History of Their Relations as Told in the Soviet Archives; Thailand ’s Response to the Cambodian Genocide; The Endurance of the Cambodian Family Under the Khmer Rouge Regime: An Oral History; Ibitero Means and Motive in the Rwandan Genocide; Second Life, Second Death: The Khmer Rouge After 1978; Rwanda’s Hutu Extremist Insurgency: An Eyewitness Perspective; Memory and Sovereignty in Post-1979 Cambodia: Choeung Ek and Local Genocide Memorials 1; The Politics of Preservation in Rwanda 1

Biography

Susan E. Cook