After the Killing Fields
Lessons from the Cambodian Genocide

The story of the 25 year effort to bring to justice the architects of the Cambodian genocide, this study explains why those who orchestrated the murder of 2.2 million people continue to escape responsibility.

Despite regular denial of knowledge of the mass killing among the surviving leadership of the Khmer Rouge, Etcheson demonstrates that they were not only aware of it, but that they personally managed and directed the killing. Demonstrates that the death toll in Cambodia is significantly higher than is commonly believed Argues that upcoming trials will probably have little impact on the perpetrators Demonstrates that the surviving leadership of the Khmer Rouge was aware of, managed, and directed the killing Relevant to high-profile trials for war crimes committed in Yugoslavia and Rwanda

List of Illustrations
Preface
The Thirty Years War
A Desperate Time
After the Peace
Documenting Mass Murder
Centralized Terror
Terror in the East
Digging in the Killing Fields
The Persistence of Impunity
The Politics of Genocide Justice
Challenging the Culture of Impunity
Notes
Bibliography
Index.