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...epic voyage, drifting down all 4,880 km of Southeast Asia's longest river. Gargan begins at the Mekong's source in the thin air of the Tibetan plateau and goes with the flow until it reaches the South China Sea. En route through China, Burma, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam?all countries nursing scars from a tumultuous and bloody century?he introduces us to a mElange of characters: yak herders, opium farmers, European backpackers, jaded aid workers, Vietnam vets?and endangered Irrawaddy dolphins. Some of those he meets seem unaffected by the horrors of the region's recent past...
...Cambodia that Gargan's journalistic talents shine. Uncovering the blank spots in the memory of a decimated culture where mothers no longer know how to properly feed their babies, he listens to tales of prisoners who subsisted on five grains of rice a day in Pol Pot's work camps and insightfully wonders how much of the story is being left out?what horrible deeds were committed to avoid being dragged away and bludgeoned to death. Here, unlike in Vietnam, he engages the central question of how survivors continue their lives with such a grisly past literally seeping...
...become weaker," says Yubaraj Ghimire, editor-in-chief of the Nepali-language Kantipur Daily. "The military faction is now leading and the whole concentration is on a military buildup." Others point to the rebels' use of fighters as young as 13 to explain the mindless brutality. As documented from Cambodia to Angola, indoctrinated, prematurely empowered child soldiers are capable of appalling atrocities...
...million deaths, but the chance that the Khmer Rouge will face justice?if justice can answer for genocide?grows remote. A frustrated U.N. last week pulled out of a plan to set up an international tribunal to try former Khmer Rouge leaders, abandoning years of negotiations and leaving Cambodia to grapple with its bloody history alone...
...Without such a fair accounting of its past, however, how will Cambodia ever face its future? Half a world away former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic's U.N. war crimes trial has just begun. Compared to butchers like Kang Khek Leu, who ran the Khmer Rouge's notorious S21 torture center, Milosevic is a petty thug. It should have been the war crimes tribunal of the latter half of the 20th century?but the Khmer Rouge may be the genocidists who got away...