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Cambodia's Curse by Joel Brinkley is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Cambodia's Curse about?

A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist returns to Cambodia thirty years after the fall of the Khmer Rouge to report on the country's struggle to recover from its pastFighting finally broke out between Ranariddh and Hun Sen in 1997. Hun Senbecame the uncontested leader. After that, successive American ambassadorsarrived with a different point of view. The horrors of the Pol Pot era had recededfrom memory, replaced by more recent genocidal moments in Rwanda, Bosnia,Darfur. So these later ambassadors, particularly Kent Wiedemann, tended toview the government’s corruption and venality with little if any sympathy.Wiedemann admitted that he effectively turned American policy towardCambodia over to the human-rights advocates. Washington no longer cared.The United Nations had invested years of effort and $3 billion but then dropped the matter—except to continue bragging about its success, even asCambodia’s leaders fell back into old patterns of self-interested turpitude. As aresult, even today, Cambodians remain the most abused people in the world.

Who reads Cambodia's Curse?

Author

Joel Brinkley

Publisher

PublicAffairs

Published

2011

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Asian History, Humanities