After the killing fields; lessons from the Cambodian genocide.0896725804 After the killing fields; lessons from the Cambodian genocide. Etcheson, Craig. Texas Tech U. Press 2005 256 pages $24.95 Paperback Modern Southeast Asia Southeast Asia, region of Asia (1990 est. pop. 442,500,000), c.1,740,000 sq mi (4,506,600 sq km), bounded roughly by the Indian subcontinent on the west, China on the north, and the Pacific Ocean on the east. series DS554 Having traced the history of Cambodian communism from its origin in the 1920s to the fall of the Khmer Rouge Khmer Rouge (kəmĕr` r  zh), name given to native Cambodian Communists. Khmer Rouge soldiers, aided by North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops, began a large-scale insurgency against in 1979 in his 1984 The Rise
and Demise of Democratic Kampuchea Democratic Kampuchea (French:Kampuchea démocratique, Khmer: កម្ពុជាប្រជាធិបតេយ្យ , Etcheson, principle founder of the
Documentation Center of Cambodia in Phnom Penh Phnom Penh (nŏm pĕn, pənŏm`) or Phnum Penh (pən m`), city (1994 est. pop. , here brings the story
forward to 2004, describing the struggles to end the war and bring the
perpetrators of the massive human rights abuses to account.
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