When the War Was Over: Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge Revolution, Revised Edition Becker ElizabethPaperback
When the War Was Over: Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge Revolution, Revised Edition Becker ElizabethPaperback Award-winning journalist Elizabeth Becker started covering Cambodia in 1973 for The…
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When the War Was Over: Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge Revolution, Revised Edition Becker ElizabethPaperback
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. Everyone was sent from the towns and cities to the countryside, where they were forced to labor endlessly in the fields. Then, with the rise of the Khmer Rouge in 1975 came the closing of the border and a systematic reorganization of Cambodian society.
Ultimately, almost two million people--nearly a quarter of the population--were killed in what was one of this century's worst crimes against humanity.When the War Was Over is Elizabeth Becker's masterful account of the Cambodian nightmare. The intelligentsia were brutally exterminated, and torture, terror, and death became routine. Encompassing the era of French colonialism and the revival of Cambodian nationalism; 1950s Paris, where Khmer