Milton E. Osborne's The French Presence in Cochinchina and Cambodia examines French colonial policy in Southeast Asia, particularly in Cochinchina (South Vietnam) and Cambodia, from 1859 to 1905. It examines the occupation process, colonial administration, the political relationship between France and local elites, and the forms of resistance and responses of local communities. Drawing on prima…
Study of the role of developed countries, the role of UN (UN and specialized agencies) and of nongovernmental organizations in providing emergency relief and food aid to alleviate hunger in Cambodia in 1979 - examines the functioning of responsible agencies in response to a disaster, the economic implications and political problems involved; discusses the conflict between politics and humanitar…
Since its entry into force on 1 March 1999, the Mine Ban Treaty (MBT) has been successful in attaining its aim of abolishing anti-personnel landmines. However, in terms of mine victim assistance, another goal sanctioned by the treaty, results have been much less heartening. This may be partially due to the weakness of existing formal monitoring of victim assistance mechanisms that fail to expos…
Cambodia's long-time opposition leader and former finance minister Sam Rainsy is committed to establishing democracy in his homeland. He is in exile in France to avoid a twelve-year prison sentence on politically motivated charges and is banned from contesting the July 2013 elections. In this autobiography he recounts his early years in Cambodia, his family's expulsion, his relationship with Si…
The international community as a whole and ASEAN in particular have paid in diplomatic and political capital, in dollars and in blood to effect a solution to the Cambodia problem that works. Singapore led a successful diplomatic pressure campaign throughout the dec- ade after Vietnamese forces chased the Democratic Kampuchea regime from Phnom Penh.
This is a history of the Khmers, the people who for thousands of years inhabited the wooded interior of Cambodia. One hundred and fifty years ago the representatives of imperial France were astonished to find half-buried within the jungle the still magnificent ruins of vast temples. Justly described as one of the wonders of the world, these were the remnants of the once great Angkor empire. Sin…
This book contains about: 1. The walled city 2. Cambodian dwellings 3. Clothing 4. Functionaries 5. The three religious groups 6. The natives 7. Childbirth 8. Maidenhood etc.
Gordon Hewart's Statement is especially true for the Extraordinary Chambers in The Courts of Cambodia, the UN-backed tribunal established to try surviving leaders of the Khmer Rouge for some of the most heinous crimes of the 20th century. The court is expected not only for provide justice for victims and survivors, but also to provide a model for the rule of law in Cambodia. This report looks b…
The modest, white-walled Noor Al-Ihsan mosque on the northern outskirts of Phnom Penh was one of the two oldest buildings in the Cambodian capital. When the city, supposedly founded in 1434, celebrated its 550th anniversary in 1984, few if any Phnom Penh buildings predated the nineteenth century. A sign in Arabic and Khmer above the old mosque's entrance dated its foundation to 1813. That was j…
This book tells of the events and personalities that shaped Cambodian history during the thirteen-year period between the overthrow of the Khmer Rouge regime in 1979 and the signing of the 1991 peace accords that resulted in U.N.-administered elections. The first study of this turbulent era, it offers a nuanced understanding of complex questions concerning human rights, economic reconstruction,…