Cambodia's curse: the modern history of a troubled land - joel brinkley

A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist describes how Cambodia emerged from the harrowing years when a quarter of its population perished under the Khmer Rouge.

A generation after genocide, Cambodia seemed on the surface to have overcome its history--the streets of Phnom Penh were paved; skyscrapers dotted the skyline.

But under this fa ade lies a country still haunted by its years of terror.

Although the international community tried to rebuild Cambodia and introduce democracy in the 1990s, in the country remained in the grip of a venal government.

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Joel Brinkley learned that almost a half of Cambodianswho lived through the Khmer Rouge era suffered from P.

--and had passed their trauma to the next generation.

His extensive close-up reporting in Cambodias Curse illuminates the country, its people, and the deep historical roots of its modern-day behavior.