In Pol Pot Time

Joshua Kurlantzick

  • Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia Special Reports 1-15
  • BuyThe Lost Executioner: The Story of Comrade Duch and the Khmer Rouge by Nic Dunlop
    Bloomsbury, 352 pp, £8.99, May 2009, ISBN 978 1 4088 0401 8

Cambodia, now 15 years removed from civil war, remains a shattered country. Poverty is on a par with many failed African states, there is widespread malnourishment, and at night packs of beggars, many maimed from the war, gather outside restaurants and bars to plead for small change. These things don’t happen in neighbouring Vietnam or Thailand.

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