Prescott Library: UN Crisis Project (Clark, Lytle, Thomas): Cambodia

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A Problem from Hell
by Samantha Power Examines the U.S.'s weak responses to genocides and threats of genocide throughout the twentieth century, discussing the Armenian genocide, the Holocaust, Cambodia, Iraq, Bosnia, Rwanda, and other instances and calling for change. Includes a bonus section containing an interview with the author and other writings.
Call Number: 304.663 Pow
Publication Date: 2007
A Cambodian odyssey
by Haing Ngor ; with Roger Warner. The story of a man who lost his family, witnessed the total destruction of his homeland, and survived the Cambodian holocaust.
Call Number: 959.604 Hai
Publication Date: 1987

Pol Pot
by Rebecca Stefoff. A biography of the prime minister of Cambodia.
Call Number: 959.604 Pol S
Publication Date: 1991
Pol Pot
by Philip Short Chronicles the life of Pol Pot, focusing on the years he spent as ruler of Cambodia and describing his efforts to exterminate any Cambodians who held onto old beliefs and ideas that went against Pol Pot's vision of an egalitarian utopia.
Call Number: 959.6042 Pol
Publication Date: 2005

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Pol Pot's Cambodia
by Matthew S. Weltig. An inside look at Cambodia under the dictatorship of Pol Pot that reviews his rise to power, the fall of his regime, and other related topics.
Call Number: 959.604 Wel
Publication Date: 2009

Kingdom of Cambodia: Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation
UN Documentation: Peacekeeping
UN Documentation: Security Council
UNTAC - UN Transitional Authority in Cambodia
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UNTAC was established to ensure implementation of the Agreements on the Comprehensive Political Settlement of the Cambodia Conflict, signed in Paris on 23 October 1991. The mandate included aspects relating to human rights, the organization and conduct of elections, military arrangements, civil administration, maintenance of law and order, repatriation and resettlement of refugees and displaced persons and rehabilitation of Cambodian infrastructure.

When the war was over : Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge revolution
by Elizabeth Becker. Chronicles the turbulent history of Cambodia from the era of French colonialism in the first half of the twentieth century to the death of Pol Pot in 1998.
Call Number: 959.604 Bec
Publication Date: 1998

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The crime of genocide : terror against humanity
by Ray Spangenburg and Kit Moser. Describes many cases of modern genocide including the systematic murder of Jews, Armenian, Cambodians, Rwandians, and the "ethnic cleansing" in Bosnia and Kosovo with many descriptions, facts, and actions of the justice community.
Call Number: 364.151 Spa
Publication Date: 2000

The Khmer Rouge and the Cambodian genocide
by Sean Bergin. Offers an introduction to the Cambodian genocide of 1975-1979, chronicling the events that surrounded the killings and the reasons behind the Khmer Rouge's bloody attacks.
Call Number: 959.604 Ber
Publication Date: 2009

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