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61. Genocide by Proxy: Cambodian Pawn
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62. Cambodians and Their Doctors:
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63. Caring for Cambodian Americans:
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64. The Khmer Rouge and the Cambodian
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65. Survivors: CAMBODIAN REFUGEES
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66. Lost Crusade: America's Secret
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67. Cambodian Dance: Celebration of
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68. Red Lights and Green Lizards:
 
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69. Beyond the Killing Fields: Voices
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70. When Elephants Fight: A Cambodian
 
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71. Facing the Cambodian Past: Selected
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72. Cambodian Culture Since 1975:
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73. We Shared The Peeled Orange: The
 
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74. Bringing the Khmer Rouge to Justice:
 
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75. Indonesia's Role in the Resolution
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76. Esaping the Khmer Rouge: A Cambodian
 
77. Khmer Rouge Abuses Along the Thai-Cambodian
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78. Towards a Christian Pastoral Approach
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80. The Cambodian Agony

61. Genocide by Proxy: Cambodian Pawn on a Superpower Chessboard
by Michael Haas
Hardcover: 400 Pages (1991-12-30)
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This is an account of a country at war and of a people consigned to the role of pawn in world politics. Haas provides detailed scholarly reassessment of the causes of the Cambodian tragedy--how Cambodia became an arena for superpower conflict. The volume vindicates Vietnam's role in the Cambodian conflict and reveals the treachery of U.S. foreign policy toward Cambodia. Haas' analysis entails a study in comparative foreign policies, an exercise that has theoretical merit for political scientists in search of paradigms of political behavior. Much of the information in the book is based on Haas' recent interviews with 100 key international figures and on primary documents. ... Read more


62. Cambodians and Their Doctors: A Medical Anthropology of Colonial and Postcolonial Cambodia (Nias Monographs)
by Jan Ovesen
Hardcover: 301 Pages (2010-05-15)
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At face value, this book is about medicine in Cambodia over the last hundred years. At the same time, however, by using 'medicine' (in the sense of ideas, practices and institutions relating to health and illness) as a prism through which to view colonial and post-colonial Cambodian society more generally, it offers an historical and contemporary anthropology of the nation of Cambodia. Rich in ethnographic detail derived from both contemporary anthropological fieldwork and colonial archival material, the study is an account of the simultaneous presence in Cambodia of two medical traditions: the modern, biomedical one first introduced by the French colonial power at the turn of the twentieth century, and the indigenous Khmer health cosmology. In their reliance on one or the other of the two traditions, to a large extent the Khmer people have been concerned to find efficient medical treatment that also adheres to social norms (not least the emphasis on the morality of social relations). This concern is also evident in the prevailing medical pluralism in Cambodia today.The authors trace the interaction (and lack thereof) between these two traditions from the French colonial period via the political upheavals of the 1970s through to the present day. The result is more than a medical anthropology; this is a key text that also makes a significant contribution to the anthropological study of Cambodian society at large and will be an important resource for development planners and aid workers in medical and related fields. ... Read more


63. Caring for Cambodian Americans: A Multidisciplinary Resource for the Helping Professions (Studies in Asian Americans)
by Sharon K. Ratliff
Hardcover: 432 Pages (1997-12-01)
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This comprehensive compilation of information on virtually every aspect of Cambodian culture is a practical resource for health care and social service providers, hospitals, agencies, and students of intercultural studies.Comparatively researched in rural Cambodian villages and among refugees in the United States, this work is unique in its scope and detail about this American subculture.
Significant challenges to traditional attitudes, beliefs, values, and expectations impact Cambodian refugees differentially according to generation, former family situation, and opportunities or barriers experienced in the United States. The horrors of the Khmer Rouge regime are reflected in Cambodians' frequent inability to adapt successfully to an alien environment.This work highlights the dynamic but stressful transitions currently experienced by this resilient people.
The book first explores the Cambodian religious spectrum both in Cambodia and in the United States, and provides insight into values, ethics, norms, affect, etiquette, and a framework for negotiating ethical issues.It also illuminates everyday life and life passages, including language use, habitat, family structure and roles, hygiene and grooming, child and adolescent development, courtship and marriage, and issues at the end of life.A section is devoted to health issues, describing traditional healing techniques and Cambodian attitudes about biomedicine both in Cambodia and in the United States. Findings from the medical literature are also summarized.The work also features chapters on finding and effectively using interpreters and conducting an adequate cultural assessment.An appendix provides specific need to know areas for nine professional groups. ... Read more


64. The Khmer Rouge and the Cambodian Genocide (Genocide in Modern Times)
by Sean Bergin
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65. Survivors: CAMBODIAN REFUGEES IN THE UNITED STATES (Asian American Experience)
by Sucheng Chan
Paperback: 376 Pages (2004-05-05)
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In this clear, comprehensive, and unflinching study, Sucheng Chan invites us to follow the saga of Cambodian refugees striving to distance themselves from a series of cataclysmic events in their homeland. "Survivors" track not only the Cambodians' fight for life lives but also their battle for self-definition in new American surroundings. Unparalleled in scope, "Survivors" begins with the Cambodians' experiences under the brutal Khmer Rouge regime, following them through escape to refugee camps in Thailand and finally to the United States, where they try to build new lives in the wake of massive trauma. Their struggle becomes primarily economic as they continue to negotiate new cultures and deal with rapidly changing gender and intergenerational relations within their own families. Poverty, crime, and racial discrimination all leave impact on their experiences in America, and each is examined in depth. Although written as a history, this is a thoroughly multidisciplinary study, and Chan makes use of research from anthropology, sociology, psychology, medicine, social work, linguistics and education. She also captures the perspective of individual Cambodians.Drawing on interviews with more than fifty community leaders, a hundred government officials, and staff members in volunteer agencies, "Survivors" synthesizes the literature on Cambodian refugees, many of whom come from varying socioeconomic backgrounds. A major scholarly achievement, "Survivors" is unique in the Asian American canon for its memorable presentation of cutting-edge research and its interpretation of both sides of the immigration process. ... Read more


66. Lost Crusade: America's Secret Cambodian Mercenaries (Special Warfare Series)
by Peter Scott
Hardcover: 194 Pages (1998-11)
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This fascinating chronicle of Peter Scott's experiencesadvising a secret army of 6,000 brave Cambodian Khmer Krom warriorsoffers a moving and richly detailed description of the deep bondsstruck in war between Americans and Southeast Asians as he seamlesslyreconstructs the mercenary force's final crusade against communism. ... Read more

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3-0 out of 5 stars Border Cambodians fight the Vietnamese Communists.
There are thousands of books that come out each decade about the Vietnam War.I think the story told in this book is worthwhile, since it gives the account of border Cambodians in their fight with the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese.I would not label it a literary masterpiece, simply because it is a combat story of why America lost the wars in Southeast Asia.These ethnic minorities in Vietnam were promised American support in their efforts to rid their homeland of occupiers (namely the Viet Cong) and America turned its back on them in order to leave the Vietnam War.Who suffered:the ethnic Cambodians who fought against the Communists and were killed off.
This book also puts an end to the story by liberals that the Viet Cong were liberators of the South.They killed, taxed, and made the local Cambodian population suffer their brand of Communism.The South Vietnamese may not have been much better, but at least they respected the local population better.This is a story of American betrayal of the Cambodian population of South Vietnam.

5-0 out of 5 stars Thank you Pete!
Having known Peter Scott just prior to his departure for Vietnam, I could hear his voice in my ears as I read Lost Crusade. Thank you Peter for this extaordinary contribution to literature about the war in Southeast Asia. For those of us who served but did not work directly with indigenous people, this book provides rich detail and insight in to the lives of the individuals we fought so hard to help. Should Peter Scott happen to read this, please accept my personal best wishes and thanks for your contribution. Trace Gordon, 101st. Aviation Batallion, 101st.Airborne Infantry Division 1969-1970

5-0 out of 5 stars Literary Masterpiece
I read 1-2 titles a week and this is one of the most compelling things
that I have ever read.Peter Scott writes with clarity and a passion
for humanity that made me shudder.It is not fair to the rest of the
book to single out any one chapter, but a chapter near the end about a
Pentagon general and Mr. Scott trying to decypher a paper battle map,
crudely and simplisticly describing a battle on the other side of the
world that must have invovled some of Mr. Scott's friends, is one of
the cruelest things that I have ever read.I had to put the book down
for a few days after.

If this book were a work of fiction, it
would fail - not because of the quality of the writing, which
surpasses most fiction and stands with the best, but because an
experience this fantastic is just not believable.Unless, of course,
it is real.

Other top favorites: Project Omega (Acre), Forgotten
Soldier (Sayer)


5-0 out of 5 stars A book with unique personal impact and historical importance
"Lost Crusade" must be counted as one of the best books ever written about the Vietnam War, and yet it goes far beyond the category of books 'about' Vietnam. "Lost Crusade" is much more than a bookabout war and for this reason will be valued even by those with no priorinterest in the Vietnam War.

In "Lost Crusade" Peter Scottdescribes his experiences working with native Cambodian soldiers (the KhmerKrom) during the Vietnam War, and the book centers on the relationships heand other advisors built with these soldiers over the course of the War. Atthe same time Scott offers a broader, historical context of the conflictand the place of the Cambodians within it. This is what makes the book sucha strong effort on two levels: it functions as both a historical documentof the War from the perspective of one who was involved in it on theground, and it is a moving recounting of the relationships between men whofought together as told by a skilled writer.

Scott introduces the largecast of characters with the same easy clarity that characterizes the bookas a whole, and in a very personal way the reader soon begins to feel someof the attachment for his soldiers that Scott himself must have felt. Wealso encounter, quite vividly, the brutality of the War itself as well asthe barbaric history of the region that pre-dated U.S. involvement. Thisallows the reader to understand some of the ferocity and drive thatmotivated these soldiers, and difficult as the material is to read attimes, these passages could be seen as some of the most vital and necessaryin the book.

The true measure of the book's success, and what makes thebook accessible to all readers, is how deeply attached Scott causes thereader to become to his characters. This is largely due to the incrediblyeffective way in which it was written. The style appears to be effortless,and it is not until one actually stops to consciously consider it that thegreat care and craft invested in the book's writing becomes evident. Such astyle quickly allows the reader to become involved in the personalrelationships Scott establishes with the soldiers, and amplifies thetragedy that consumes many of them by the book's end.

"LostCrusade" is both tremendously moving and also historically important,and it manages to effectively accomplish both its goals. Peter Scott hassucceeded in writing a book 'about' war that, like all great books of itstype, is really about the relationships that result from people beingplaced in situations such as war. While historically informative, mostpeople will value the experience of reading the book for what it shows ofhuman nature and human frailty. The book is certain to grip its readers andconsume them from its fiery start in Southeast Asia to its bittersweetconclusion on America's West Coast.

3-0 out of 5 stars Valuable view from an advisor who was there.
"Lost Crusade" is a valuable view from an American advisor of the counterinsurgency efforts during the Vietnam War.As he advised Cambodians largely resident in South Vietnam, Scott brings out thenationalistic elements in the conflict.(This reviewer strongly believesthat nationalism kept the VC and the NVA going, not Communism.)Scottdiscusses the civil war in Cambodia during that period and connects it toCambodia's ancient past.My main criticism is twofold : a confusingtimeline as Scott jumps around mixing national, military and personalhistories, and a viewpoint that may reflect Cambodian biases.A largercomplaint : the Cambodians here, like the Montagnards and Nungs in otherbooks on the Vietnam War, are labelled "mercenaries."Why? Because U.S. forces paid them to fight?The South Vietnamese soldier waspaid to fight, and many of them seemed less interested in the war than agood number of the ethnic minorities in the country.Are these soldiers"mercenaries" because they fought under American command?Theterm "mercenary" implies an attitude that the soldier sodescribed doesn't really care about what the fight is about, but only thathe makes it to pay day.In "Lost Crusade" Scott shows that, infact, the Cambodians did have a definite ethnic identity and a purpose forfighting. The NVA was seen as a Vietnamese force and not a universalliberator of the oppressed and downtrodden, and the Diem and Thieu regimesasauthorities to be survived, not embraced.The Cambodians may not havecared about who was in power in Saigon, but they cared very much thatwhoever was in power in Saigon had designs on Cambodia. If fighting for Hoor Thieu (or Westmoreland) would result in their achieving autonomy orindependence, they would do that. ... Read more


67. Cambodian Dance: Celebration of the Gods
by Denise Heywood
Hardcover: 192 Pages (2009-04-25)
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Full history of Cambodian Dance ... Read more

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5-0 out of 5 stars Master Class
I had the pleasure of hearing Denise speak about Cambodia on a ship headed up the Viet Nam coast.She is funny, smart, and captivating in person, and now that I have this book - my first impressions were confirmed. I went to Cambodia after I met her, and my trip was enriched tenfold from having heard and met her. I watched the dances with the benefit of a little inside knowledge. If you are a fan of travel writer Paul Theroux, you will love Denise even more.

5-0 out of 5 stars Insightful and Entertaining
This book is, simply, a treasure.Denise Heywood knows dance and Cambodia and skillfully weaves together a fascinating picture of a country, and of its people.Classical dance is very much at the heart of the Cambodian identity - perhaps much more so than in modern Western culture.

Heywood looks both to the past and to the future of Dance, providing insights into the impact of politics, economics and a turbulent history on the dance form.Per Martha Graham "Dance ...has been the symbol of the performance of living." The author's account of the survivors and rebirth of Dance post "Killing Fields" is thorough and inspiring.

This in-depth knowledge of traditional dance forms and of Cambodian history and of their interplay makes for compelling reading.The author writes with passion using language that is rich with word pictures, clear, and entertaining.Illustrations are top knotch and plentiful, ranging from "traditional hand gestures" to stiles of Dancing apsara riddled with bullet holes at Angor Wat; shadowpuppets, to modern dance training.

Heywood's look at the Cambodian royal family's profound impact on dance is singular, thanks to her personal connection with figures like HRH Norodom Buppha Devi and her father, the former King Sihanouk.This is a great read and a fascinating book.

4-0 out of 5 stars This book is much appreciated
Having discovered this dance form some years ago on Ovation TV, I have spent a lot of fruitless hours trying to learn about the origins and meaning of traditional Khmer dance. There have been few or no books available, no performance DVD's that I've been able to find, and precious little on the internet. I have seen a few live performances which were magnificent.

This book is one of two books to have recently come out on this subject. The other is more than $150, so I ordered this one.

This is the kind of resource I've been looking for. The scope of the book is wide, including some Khmer and Cambodian history, the origins and evolution of the dances, the costumes, poses, hand gestures, famous performers, and the involvement of the Cambodian Royal family. The author had access to many of the figures in Cambodian dance today. The breadth of the topics means that the book is really a starting point for understanding this art. If you take the book on that level, it is really well done.

There are a lot of images in the book, some are photos, others are prints and historical representation. There are some great photos of the dancers, their costumes and specific dance positions and poses. Most of the photos are high quality, but there are some that have that high-school-text-book-from-the-60's look, with very grainy texture and bad color reproduction.

I highly recommend this book. It won't give you everything on this rich and complex subject, but it will give you a good grounding. This dance form is very beautiful and worth learning about, but has been under the radar for many people.I hope that this book inspires people to find out about Cambodian dance and to support it. ... Read more


68. Red Lights and Green Lizards: A Cambodian Adventure
by Liz Anderson
Paperback: 380 Pages (2010-04-01)
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When two elderly doctors join Voluntary Service Overseas, they find themselves in unusual circumstances when they arrive in Cambodia. Together these women face not only humid weather, cockroaches, and cultural obstacles, but also something far more challenging: the harsh realities of a country still reeling from the prolonged terrors of Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge. With a generosity of spirit and an unquenchable sense of humor they plunge into the maelstrom of lawlessness where life is cheap, and guns and greed prevail. This third edition contains a postscript considering events since 2003, bringing the reader up to date with the situation in Cambodia as it is today.

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69. Beyond the Killing Fields: Voices of Nine Cambodian Survivors in America (Asian America)
by Usha Welaratna
 Paperback: 312 Pages (1994-10-01)
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In 1975, after five years of devastation and upheaval caused by civil war, the Cambodian people welcomed the victorious communist Khmer Rouge led by Pol Pot. Once in power, the new regime tightly closed Cambodia to the outside world. Four years later, when the Vietnamese communists invaded Cambodia and defeated the Khmer Rouge, the world learned that during their control the Khmer Rouge had turned the country into "killing fields", in one of the most horrifying instances of genocide in history. Of an estimated population of 7 million people, about 1.5 million had been killed or had died of starvation, torture, or sickness. After the Vietnamese takeover, thousands of survivors of the Khmer Rouge, fearful of continuing war and a new communist regime, fled their homeland. Approximately 150,000 of them settled in the United States. This book documents the Cambodian refugee experience through nine powerful first-person narratives of men, women, and children who survived the holocaust and have begun new lives in America. The narrators come from varied socioeconomic and ethnic backgrounds and include a former Buddhist monk, an unskilled factory worker, and a farm boy, all of whom are ethnic Cambodians; a middle-class Chinese Cambodian housewife and her daughter; and a Vietnamese Cambodian medical student. The refugees first speak of their lives before the Khmer Rouge. We get an intimate view of a distinct way of life that had evolved over 2,000 years as the refugees relate Cambodian views of life, death, rebirth, karma, love, marriage, and family-views deeply imbued with Buddhist concepts. Next, with sorrow and sometimes anger, they relive their traumatic survival of the Khmer Rouge,reflecting on the deaths of loved ones and the desecration of their culture. Finally, they retrace their hazardous escapes and journeys to the United States and talk candidly about their hopes, dreams, and fears as they continue the difficult adjustment to a new social and cultur ... Read more

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4-0 out of 5 stars Interview-based format powerful.
It is hard for most of us to grasp the magnitude of the abomination perpetrated upon the Cambodian people.The use of the interview-based technique very poignantly relays the individual experience in manner not seen with scholarly historical works ... Read more


70. When Elephants Fight: A Cambodian Family's Survival in the Face of Murderous Intent
by Vannary Imam
Paperback: 347 Pages (2001-03)
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This is the moving story of three generations of a Cambodian family and an extraordinary woman who forged a new life for herself out of the carnage of the killing fields. Interweaving family history, national politics, and personal memoir, this book traces the experiences of the daughter of a senior Cambodian government bureaucrat. Part of her family was lost and others tossed to the corners of the globe as refugees as the bloody civil war devastated her country. ... Read more

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2-0 out of 5 stars There are others
This book is okay.I found others that are better written and more descriptive of the terrible tragedy in Cambodia.I would suggest When Broken Glass Floats instead. ... Read more


71. Facing the Cambodian Past: Selected Essays 1971-1994
by David Chandler
 Paperback: 340 Pages (1998-06)
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These 19 essays cover a range of themes and problems as perceived by a leading student of Cambodia's past. They include studies of the leper-king myth at Angkor, post-Angkorean normative poems, nineteenth century perceptions of the moral order, and royally sponsored human sacrifices in rural Cambodia in the 1870s. Other essays deal with aspects of the colonial period and the revolutionary era (1975-1979). The collection closes with two essays, written sixteen years apart, that deal with what the author calls "the tragedy of Cambodian history". ... Read more

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4-0 out of 5 stars "A trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still more so."
This book presents the reader with a fine selection of scholarly articles by a key expert in Cambodian History, David Chandler. Almost all of these articles have appeared before in various academic journals in the 1970's and 1980's, but "Facing the Cambodian Past" brings them all together in a handy volume mostly untouched except for a few modest hindsights by the author looking over his work years later and putting them in context. The tone is quite academic as is to be expected, and the primary intended audience Chandler has in mind is clearly fellow scholars and students of Cambodian history specifically and Southeast Asian history more generally. That said, as an interested non-expert myself with only cursory familiarity gleaned from a general history source (A Short History of Cambodia: From Empire to Survival (Short History of Asia series, A)), I found the assortment of articles quite interesting and reasonably comprehensible. Each of them directs a brilliant spotlight on intriguing, thought-provoking details and aspects of Cambodian history--instead of a sweep of development, brief pauses of careful and minute observation. Many of these in turn are very much concerned not just with history but historiography, exploring what gets highlighted and what ignored according to different approaches and cultural assumptions--and how later issues influence the retrospective remembrance and reconstruction of past events. All of which has the salutary effect of shaking up one's own settled presuppositions in the bargain.

The book is unfortunately marred by a few misprints and typos as well as a few dated projections (historians make terrible prophets, as Chandler himself would doubtlessly agree), but on the whole "Facing the Cambodian Past" is indispensable for experts in this field of inquiry and reasonably interesting and useful for the rest of us with an interest in this subject.
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The book's contents are as follows:

Part I: Angkor and Memories of Angkor
1. "Folk Memories of the Decline of Angkor in Nineteenth Century Cambodia: The Legend of the Leper King" (1978)
2. "An Eighteenth Century Inscription from Angkor Wat" (1970)
3. "Maps for Ancestors: Sacralized Topography and Echoes of Angkor in Two Cambodian Texts" (1975)
Part II: Cambodia before the French
4. "Normative Poems (Chbap) and Pre-colonial Cambodian Society" (1982)
5. "An Anti-Vietnamese Rebellion in Early Nineteenth-Century Cambodia" (1973)
6. "Songs at the Edge of the Forest: Perceptions of Order in Three Cambodian Texts" (1978)
7. "Going through the Motions: Ritual Aspects of the Reign of King Duang of Cambodia (1848-1860)" (1979)
8. "Royally Sponsored Human Sacrifices in Nineteenth-Century Cambodia: The Cult of Nak Ta Me Sa (Mahisasuramardini) at Ba Phnom" (1973)
Part III: The Colonial Era
9. "The Assassination of Resident Bardez (1925): A Premonition of Revolt in Colonial Cambodia" (1981)
10. "The Duties of the Corps of Royal Scribes: An Undated Khmer Manuscript from the Colonial Era" (1975)
11. "The Kingdom of Kampuchea, March-October 1945" (1985)
12. "Cambodian Royal Chronicles (Rajabangsavatar), 1927-1949: Kingship and Historiography at the End of the Colonial Era" (1976)
Part IV: Cambodia since 1975
13. "Transformation in Cambodia" (1976)
14. "Revising the Past in Democratic Kampuchea: When Was the Birthday of the Party?" (1982)
15. "Seeing Red: Perceptions of Cambodian History in Democratic Kampuchea" (1982)
16. "A Revolution in Full Spate: Communist Party Policy in Democratic Kampuchea, December 1976" (1982)
17. "Cambodia in 1984: Historical Patterns Reasserted?" (1984)
Part V: History and Tragedy
18. "The Tragedy of Cambodian History" (1979)
19. "The Tragedy of Cambodian History Revisited" (1994)

3-0 out of 5 stars Deference and fatalism
The bulk of the essays in this book are treating more specialized items, like the Cambodian Royal Chronicles, pre-colonial normative poems, the assassination of a French tax collector or the duties of the Corps of the Royal Scribes. They are more intended for the Cambodian scholar.

The whole book sketches a good impression of the general Cambodian mentality: deference and fatalism rather than rebelliousness. What changed the whole picture and became a tragedy for the country was the fact that it became a football in the deadly Cold War game between, on the one side, China and the US(!) who supported the Red Khmer and, on the other side, the USSR who supported Vietnam.

The Pol Pot regime was an exceptional phenomenon imported from the West, because all the men in charge of Angkar were recruited and 'educated' in France by the Stalinist PC.

Some essays contain more general comments on the Pol Pot regime and the more actual Cambodian situation, but readers interested in those problems should read prof. Chandler's main works 'The Tragedy of Cambodian History', 'Brother Number One' and 'Voices from S-21'.

This book is more for the specialists. ... Read more


72. Cambodian Culture Since 1975: Homeland and Exile (Asia East By South Series)
Paperback: 216 Pages (1994-07)
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73. We Shared The Peeled Orange: The Letters of "Papa Louis" from the Thai-Cambodian Border Refugee Camps 1981-1993
by Louis Braile, American Refugee Committee
Paperback: 330 Pages (2005-02)
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4-0 out of 5 stars A physician's introspective story of his work in a refugee camp
During 12 visits between 1981 and 1993 Dr Louis Braile worked on the Thai-Cambodian border, first in a number of refugee camps and finally at a hospital at Mongkol Borei in northwestern Cambodia. Gentle, introspective and compassionate, his descriptions of his experiences are vivid and often poignant while quietly modest about the author's own dedication to long hours under grueling conditions. Dr Braile worked in virtually every area of medicine, in unsanitary and often unsafe conditions, and dealt with death on a daily basis. His fervent love for the Khmer people kept him returning again and again until the last camp closed and the last refugee went home. Curiously, his life while not at work was a pleasant contrast, as he gives the reader descriptions of meals and journeys through the Thai countryside and a bemused commentary on his encounters across cultural and linguistic barriers.

I worked briefly with "Papa Louis" in 1984 and found this book an open window into those long, dusty days helping patients struggle through disease and injury in bamboo-and-thatch hospitals. If you are one of the thousands of relief workers who worked in the Cambodian refugee camps, this book is a treasury of bittersweet memories.

Those interested in this time and place in history might enjoy Bamboo and Barbed Wire by Margot Grant.

5-0 out of 5 stars A unique and candid memoir
We Shared The Peeled Orange: The Letters of 'Papa Louis" From The Thai-Cambodian Border Refugee Camps 1981-1993 arises from the letters of volunteer physician Dr. Louis E. Braile and offers the reader an autobiographically descriptive insight into the world of humanitarian relief work as provided by the American Refugee Committee in the refugee camps of such diverse countries as Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Sudan. Dr. Braile (who came to be known as "Papa Louis" completed twelve tours of duty on the Thai-Cambodian border through the American Refugee Committee between 1981 and 1993. His experiences ranged from treating a child suffering from malnutrition to teaching a young refugee basic medical care. Dr. Braile's letters depict hardships, frustrations, pains, and joys of working in a refugee camp in the midst of chaos. Up until his death in 2002, Dr. Braile remained an exemplar of dedication and sacrifice in behalf of peoples whose lives had been shattered by the forces of war, famine, poverty, and politics. We Shared The Peeled Orange is a unique and candid memoir, and a fitting memorable to a man who made a difference in the lives of thousands of desperate and all to often forgotten people. ... Read more


74. Bringing the Khmer Rouge to Justice: Prosecuting Mass Violence Before the Cambodian Courts (Criminology Studies)
 Hardcover: 441 Pages (2005-09-30)
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This book explores the legal issues surrounding accountability for the crijes of the Khmer Rouge and crimes of mass violence more generally. Comprising chapters by legal academics, lawyers, historians, artists, and others, the volume presents thorough analyses of the complex problems inherent to accountability efforts and novel ideas as to how to address them. ... Read more


75. Indonesia's Role in the Resolution of the Cambodian Problem
by Em Nagendraprasad, M. Nagendra Prasad
 Hardcover: 213 Pages (2001-12)
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Asin: 0754616061
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The author explores the role of "peackemaker" that Indonesia volunteered to play by way of resolving the complex Cambodian conflict. He examines what motivated Indonesia; how far the country lived up to ASEAN expectations; and whether the country succeeded as a mediator. ... Read more


76. Esaping the Khmer Rouge: A Cambodian Memoir (Security Continuum: Global Pol)
by Chileng Pa, Carol A. Mortland
Paperback: 240 Pages (2008-02-20)
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The Khmer Rouge ruled Cambodia for three years, eight months and twenty days. After overthrowing Lon Nol in April 1975 and establishing a so-called Democratic Kampuchea, the Communist-sponsored government was responsible for the deaths of as many as two million people, almost one-third of the country's population. Here, Chileng Pa vividly recalls life under the Cambodian Communists. Attempting to conceal his identity as a policeman for the previous government, Chileng changed his name and moved his family to the village of Prayap, near the Vietnamese border. In April of 1977, after two years of starvation and cruelty at the hands of the Khmer Rouge, Chileng was forced to watch as Communist guerillas brutally murdered his wife and two-year-old son. With nothing left for him in Prayap Chileng fled to Vietnam, but eventually returned to Cambodia as part of a Vietnamese invasion force that would end the bloody reign of the Khmer regime. In 1981 Chileng and his new family found their way to America. His "simple strand of remembrance" serves to honor all those who died at the hands of the Khmer Rouge. ... Read more


77. Khmer Rouge Abuses Along the Thai-Cambodian Border (Asia Watch Report)
by Asia Watch
 Paperback: 42 Pages (1989-01)
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78. Towards a Christian Pastoral Approach to Cambodian Culture
by Gerard Ravasco
Paperback: 126 Pages (2006-08-13)
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A short treatment on how various religions influenced Cambodia into what it is now and on how foreigners who visit or stay in this country could adapt to their religious blendings. ... Read more


79. Cambodian Chronicles, 1989-1996: Bungling a Peace Plan
by Raoul M. Jennar
Paperback: 296 Pages (1998-01-12)
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80. The Cambodian Agony
by David A. Ablin
 Paperback: 434 Pages (1990-12)
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Asin: 0873327543
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