Rise of the Brao
Rise of the Brao

Author: Ian G. Baird

Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press

Published: 2020-01-28

Total Pages: 390

ISBN-13: 0299326101

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In the early 1970s, the Khmer Rouge had become suspicious of communist Vietnam and began to persecute Cambodian ethnic groups who had ties to the country, including the Brao Amba in the northeast. Many fled north as political refugees, and some joined the Vietnamese effort to depose the Khmer Rouge a few years later. The subsequent ten-year occupation is remembered by many Cambodians as a time of further oppression, but this volume reveals an unexpected dimension of this troubled past. Trusted by the Vietnamese, the Brao were installed in positions of great authority in the new government only to gradually lose their influence when Vietnam withdrew from Cambodia. Based on detailed research and interviews, Ian G. Baird documents this golden age of the Brao, including the voices of those who are too frequently omitted from official records. Rise of the Brao challenges scholars to look beyond the prevailing historical narratives to consider the nuanced perspectives of peripheral or marginal regions.

On the Margins
On the Margins

Author: Human Rights Watch (Organization)

Publisher: Human Rights Watch

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 115

ISBN-13: 1564324265

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Indigenous Peoples/ethnic Minorities and Poverty Reduction: Proceedings of a Regional Workshop, Asian Development Bank, Manila, Philippines, 25-26 October 2001
Indigenous Peoples/ethnic Minorities and Poverty Reduction: Proceedings of a Regional Workshop, Asian Development Bank, Manila, Philippines, 25-26 October 2001

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Publisher: Indigenous Peoples

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 82

ISBN-13:

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This summary organizes the theme papers, findings, and recommendations that were presented at the Regional Workshop on Indigenous Peoples and Poverty Reduction, including the proposed regional plan of action that can guide future national approaches to this issue throughout the Southeast Asian region. Included are the opening statements by government representatives, the presentation of the project's main findings, the panel's discussion on the role of international assistance, and a list of participants and observers.

Genocide and Resistance in Southeast Asia
Genocide and Resistance in Southeast Asia

Author: Ben Kiernan

Publisher: Transaction Publishers

Published: 2011-12-31

Total Pages: 365

ISBN-13: 1412809150

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Two modern cases of genocide and extermination began in Southeast Asia in the same year. Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge regime ruled Cambodia from 1975 to 1979, and Indonesian forces occupied East Timor from 1975 to 1999. This book examines the horrific consequences of Cambodian communist revolution and Indonesian anti-communist counterinsurgency. It also chronicles the two cases of indigenous resistance to genocide and extermination, the international cover-ups that obstructed documentation of these crimes, and efforts to hold the perpetrators legally accountable. The perpetrator regimes inflicted casualties in similar proportions. Each caused the deaths of about one-fifth of the population of the nation. Cambodia's mortality was approximately 1.7 million, and approximately 170,000 perished in East Timor. In both cases, most of the deaths occurred in the five-year period from 1975 to1980. In addition, Cambodia and East Timor not only shared the experience of genocide but also of civil war, international intervention, and UN conflict resolution. U.S. policymakers supported the invading Indonesians in Timor, as well as the indigenous Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. Both regimes exterminated ethnic minorities, including local Chinese, as well as political dissidents. Yet the ideological fuel that ignited each conflagration was quite different. Jakarta pursued anti-communism; the Khmer Rouge were communists. In East Timor the major Indonesian goal was conquest. In Cambodia, the Khmer Rouge's goal was revolution. Maoist ideology influenced Pol Pot's regime, but it also influenced the East Timorese resistance to the Indonesia's occupiers. Genocide and Resistance in Southeast Asia is significant both for its historical documentation and for its contribution to the study of the politics and mechanisms of genocide. It is a fundamental contribution that will be read by historians, human rights activists, and genocide studies specialists.

Civilizing the Margins
Civilizing the Margins

Author: Christopher R. Duncan

Publisher: NUS Press

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 9789971694180

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Discusses the programs, policies, and laws that affect ethnic minorities in eight countries: Burma, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Viet Nam. Once targeted for intervention, people such as the Orang Asli of Malaysia and the "hill tribes" of Thailand often become the subject of programs aimed at radically changing their lifestyles, which the government views as backward or primitive. Several chapters highlight the tragic consequences of forced resettlement, a common result of these programs.

Southeast Asian Muslims in the Era of Globalization
Southeast Asian Muslims in the Era of Globalization

Author: K. Miichi

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Published: 2015-01-01

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 9781349493623

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This volume investigates the appropriate position of Islam and opposing perceptions of Muslims in Southeast Asia. The contributors examine how Southeast Asian Muslims respond to globalization in their particular regional, national and local settings, and suggest global solutions for key local issues.

Cambodia's Curse
Cambodia's Curse

Author: Joel Brinkley

Publisher: PublicAffairs

Published: 2011-04-12

Total Pages: 382

ISBN-13: 1610390016

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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 façe 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 Cambodians who lived through the Khmer Rouge era suffered from P.T.S.D. -- and had passed their trauma to the next generation. His extensive close-up reporting in Cambodia's Curse illuminates the country, its people, and the deep historical roots of its modern-day behavior.

The Pol Pot Regime
The Pol Pot Regime

Author: Ben Kiernan

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2008-10-01

Total Pages: 544

ISBN-13: 0300142994

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This edition of Ben Kiernan's account of the Cambodian revolution and genocide includes a new preface that takes the story up to 2008 and the UN-sponsored Khmer Rouge tribunal. Kiernan's other books include 'Blood and Soil: A World History of Genocide and Extermination from Sparta to Darfur' and 'How Pol Pot Came to Power'.