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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Khmer Rouge"”.
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Ford, Carter and Cambodia: US foreign policy and the Khmer Rouge
… is an investigation into the US response to the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia between 1974 and 1981. It argues that the US experience in the Vietnam War acted as a causal factor in the formulation of its Cambodian policy during the presidencies of Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter. From taking power …
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Seeing red : American foreign policy towards Vietnam and the Khmer Rouge, 1975 to 1982
Between 1979 and 1982 the US supported the Khmer Rouge in the refugee camps along the Thai-Cambodian border, in the Security Council of the United Nations, and in behind-closed-doors discussions seeking to ensure a place for the Khmer Rouge (as an armed force) in a coalition government. The US …
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From the killing fields to a field of hope: the portrait of a teacher's dream
… a country held hostage by the murderous Khmer Rouge in the 1970s. Still struggling to recover from these atrocities, Cambodia looks to education to aid in its redevelopment. This ethnographically-informed case study describes the professional literacy life of a female Cambodian primary …
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Effects of Parental Trauma Experience on Second Generation Cambodian Americans
… examined the effects of parental trauma from the Khmer Rouge (Cambodian genocide), on SGCA in relation to SGCA's mental health status, parent-child communication, cohesion, flexibility, and academic achievements. This study was conceptualized through the effects of intergenerational trauma. A …
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Cambodian Genocide Museums And Memorials: A Medium For Transmitting Intergenerational Cultural Memory
… in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. From 1975 and 1979, the Khmer Rouge Regime used Tuol Sleng, formerly Tuol Svay Prey High School, as an interrogation, torture, and execution site. Today, the prison has been transformed into a museum but preserved just as the Democratic Kampuchea left the facilities in …
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International Crimes as Familiar Spectacles: Socially Constructed Understandings of Atrocity and the Visibility Politics of International Criminal Law
… of processes of mass killing and abuse in Khmer Rouge era Cambodia and elsewhere. Chapter five argues that visibility politics undermine the aims of ICL and negatively influence historical memory and the distribution of human rights, transitional justice, and peacebuilding resources. …
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Khmer Ways of Seeing, Migration and Divinatory Improvisation in Phnom Penh
Since the fall of the Khmer Rouge, local practices of divination, magic and spirit veneration have increased in diversity and popularity in Cambodia, including in the capital city of Phnom Penh. Although modern urban Khmers embody a cosmopolitan lifestyle, the way they see and make sense of the …
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Khmer Ways of Seeing, Migration and Divinatory Improvisation in Phnom Penh
Since the fall of the Khmer Rouge, local practices of divination, magic and spirit veneration have increased in diversity and popularity in Cambodia, including in the capital city of Phnom Penh. Although modern urban Khmers embody a cosmopolitan lifestyle, the way they see and make sense of the …
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Kinship and modernisation : an analysis of a Cham community of East Coast Peninsular Malaysia
… maintain their identity, persecution under the Khmer Rouge and the subsequent migration and resettlement, which have all both accentuated the importance of kinship as protection and resource, and deepened the attachment of the Chain to a collective identity - now in the form of Orang Kemboja - …
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Rivers of Resistance: Aid, Activism and Energy in Cambodia and Myanmar
… isolation. In not dissimilar fashion, the Khmer Rouge marched into Cambodia’s capital, Phnom Penh, on 17 April 1975, overthrowing the fledgling Lon Nol government. Rather than stabilise the country, however, it would mark the beginning of a genocide that killed up to two million people and …