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When the War Was Over: Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge Revolution (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 72 hours | |Short Description for When the War Was OverThe Khmer Rouge revolution brought unprecedented terror and destruction to Cambodia. In this account, often told in the words of those who escaped, Becker captures the nightmare: a capital city emptied; the intelligentsia hunted down; scant food, poor shelter; and routine torture and death.
Full description- Publisher: PublicAffairs,U.S.
- Published: 20 October 1998
- Format: Paperback 632 pages
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- Categories: Public Administration | Political Oppression & Persecution | Terrorism, Armed Struggle | Asian History | Postwar 20th Century History, From C 1945 To C 2000
- ISBN 13: 9781891620003 ISBN 10: 1891620002
- Sales rank: 78,798
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Full description for When the War Was Over
Award-winning journalist Elizabeth Becker started covering Cambodia in 1973 for The Washington Post, when the country was perceived as little more than a footnote to the Vietnam War. Then, with the rise of the Khmer Rouge in 1975 came the closing of the border and a systematic reorganization of Cambodian society. Everyone was sent from the towns and cities to the countryside, where they were forced to labor endlessly in the fields. The intelligentsia were brutally exterminated, and torture, terror, and death became routine. Ultimately, almost two million peoplenearly a quarter of the populationwere killed in what was one of this centurys worst crimes against humanity. When the War Was Over is Elizabeth Beckers masterful account of the Cambodian nightmare. Encompassing the era of French colonialism and the revival of Cambodian nationalism; 1950s Paris, where Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot received his political education; the killing fields of Cambodia; government chambers in Washington, Paris, Moscow, Beijing, Hanoi, and Phnom Penh; and the death of Pol Pot in 1998; this is a book of epic vision and staggering power. Merging original historical research with the many voices of those who lived through the times and exclusive interviews with every Cambodian leader of the past quarter century, When the War Was Over illuminates the darkness of Cambodia with the intensity of a bolt of lightning.
