Beyond the Killing Fields

by Kari Rene Hall and Josh Getlin

Book Overview

They are the continuing victims of a Cambodian holocaust that shocked the world--and they are all but forgotten. Seventeen years after the Khmer Rouge began killing more than one million of their... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0893815055
• ISBN13: 9780893815059
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Aperture
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 2.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.0" x 0.8" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Photographic record of life in Site 2.

A collection of black-and-white photographs depicting life in miserable camps of Cambodian displaced persons strung along the Thai border. The photographs are interwoven with touching personal stories. These are not beautiful images, but then nothing in the camps was ever beautiful to my eyes. Those Cambodian-Americans who were interned in the camps and those who worked with humanitarian agencies involved in programs along the Thai-Cambodian border will want to own this book. Forwards are by the Dalai Lama and Dith Pran. The reader cannot help but wonder what "repatriated" Cambodians who once resided in the camps would have to say today. Was that chaotic mass repatriation back to troubled Cambodia truly a United Nations success story, or was one misery simply exchanged for another, with the victims conveniently moved out of sight, or is the truth somewhere in between? Kari Rene Hall's fine work cries out for a sequel and follow-up research work inside Cambodia, where things have never been easily understood even by those most intimately involved.