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Genocide and Resistance in Southeast Asia : Documentation, Denial, and Justice in Cambodia and East Timor by Ben Kiernan (2007, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherRoutledge

ISBN-101412806690

ISBN-139781412806695

eBay Product ID (ePID)57397978

Product Key Features

Number of Pages364 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameGenocide and Resistance in Southeast Asia : Documentation, Denial, and Justice in Cambodia and East Timor

SubjectAsia / Southeast Asia, Asia / General, Genocide & War Crimes, General, World / Asian

Publication Year2007

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaPolitical Science, History

AuthorBen Kiernan

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight17.7 Oz

Item Length9.1 in

Item Width6.7 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceCollege Audience

LCCN2007-037306

Reviews"This book represents the distilled wisdom of a lifetime's research by the world's leading expert on the Khmer Rouge regime. Kiernan's comparative analysis with the Indonesian occupation of East Timor is especially valuable. A must read for all concerned with the early detection of genocide." Peter Carey, author of East Timor at the Crossroads and professor of history, Trinity College, Oxford University

Dewey Edition22

Grade FromEleventh Grade

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal959.604/2

Table Of ContentAcknowledgements, 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

SynopsisTwo 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 to genocide and extermination, the international cover-ups that obstructed documentation of these crimes, and efforts to hold the perpetrators legally accountable. The perpetrator regimes inflicted casualties in similar proportions. Each caused the deaths of about one-fifth of the population of the nation. Cambodia's mortality was approximately 1.7 million, and approximately 170,000 perished in East Timor. In both cases, most of the deaths occurred in the five-year period from 1975 to1980. In addition, Cambodia and East Timor not only shared the experience of genocide but also of civil war, international intervention, and UN conflict resolution. U.S. policymakers supported the invading Indonesians in Timor, as well as the indigenous Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. Both regimes exterminated ethnic minorities, including local Chinese, as well as political dissidents. Yet the ideological fuel that ignited each conflagration was quite different. Jakarta pursued anti-communism; the Khmer Rouge were communists. In East Timor the major Indonesian goal was conquest. In Cambodia, the Khmer Rouge's goal was revolution. Maoist ideology influenced Pol Pot's regime, but it also influenced the East Timorese resistance to the Indonesia's occupiers. Genocide and Resistance in Southeast Asia is significant both for its historical documentation and for its contribution to the study of the politics and mechanisms of genocide. It is a fundamental contribution that will be read by historians, human rights activists, and genocide studies specialists.

LC Classification NumberDS554.8.K5834 2008