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# Cambodia's Curse

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Review: 5 Star... - My curiosity on Cambodia was stoked because of the holiday we are embarking on from tomorrow for a week. My main interest is to see the Angkor Vat temples which are believed to be a thousand years old. Just to get familiar with the country where I would be holidaying, looked around for a book on Cambodia.... Joel Brinkley is a NYT staffer and won a Pulitzer Prize for his writings on Cambodia in the late 70s. His documentation of the Pol Pot regime and the mayhem thereof is considered one of the most authentic and vivid descriptions. Later, the country was the only country to be managed by the United Nations directly with a transition government for two years which led to the institution of democracy. Well, there was democracy and the government incubated institutions for growth and development and the people lived happily ever after. This would be the ideal ending of the UN experiment. Unfortunately no. Brinkley visits the country three decades letter and the book is a firsthand account of all that happened in the country post the Pol Pot regime,The democracy that was installed and the rule of Hun Sen, the corruption, maladministration, a generation suffering from PTSD ( Post Trauma Stress Depression) due to the barbarism of the Khmer Rouge and which is being passed onto the next generation also is what the book is all about. Depressing at times but the graphic on the ground account of an award winning writer, the venality that prevails instead of governance, the sham democracy ( btw..Hun Sen is one of the World's longest democratically elected rulers, messing up the country for the last 28 years) that exists...makes you wonder whether Democracy in isolation without clean governance is worth the trouble. I know Cambodia is not normally on anyone's radar...but do read the book to understand what Corruption can do to a country. After reading the book the likes of Karunanidhi, Lalu look like angels and paragons of virtue and what happens in the badlands of India seems like kid's stuff.
Review: Four Stars - Great

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #650,592 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #1,263 in Political Ideologies #5,493 in Indian History (Books) #6,546 in Asian History (Books) |
| Country of Origin  | United Kingdom |
| Customer Reviews | 4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars (395) |
| Dimensions  | 13.97 x 2.86 x 20.96 cm |
| ISBN-10  | 1610391837 |
| ISBN-13  | 978-1610391832 |
| Item Weight  | 1 kg 50 g |
| Language  | English |
| Print length  | 386 pages |
| Publication date  | 4 September 2012 |
| Publisher  | Public Affairs |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5 Star...
*by D***A on 19 January 2015*

My curiosity on Cambodia was stoked because of the holiday we are embarking on from tomorrow for a week. My main interest is to see the Angkor Vat temples which are believed to be a thousand years old. Just to get familiar with the country where I would be holidaying, looked around for a book on Cambodia.... Joel Brinkley is a NYT staffer and won a Pulitzer Prize for his writings on Cambodia in the late 70s. His documentation of the Pol Pot regime and the mayhem thereof is considered one of the most authentic and vivid descriptions. Later, the country was the only country to be managed by the United Nations directly with a transition government for two years which led to the institution of democracy. Well, there was democracy and the government incubated institutions for growth and development and the people lived happily ever after. This would be the ideal ending of the UN experiment. Unfortunately no. Brinkley visits the country three decades letter and the book is a firsthand account of all that happened in the country post the Pol Pot regime,The democracy that was installed and the rule of Hun Sen, the corruption, maladministration, a generation suffering from PTSD ( Post Trauma Stress Depression) due to the barbarism of the Khmer Rouge and which is being passed onto the next generation also is what the book is all about. Depressing at times but the graphic on the ground account of an award winning writer, the venality that prevails instead of governance, the sham democracy ( btw..Hun Sen is one of the World's longest democratically elected rulers, messing up the country for the last 28 years) that exists...makes you wonder whether Democracy in isolation without clean governance is worth the trouble. I know Cambodia is not normally on anyone's radar...but do read the book to understand what Corruption can do to a country. After reading the book the likes of Karunanidhi, Lalu look like angels and paragons of virtue and what happens in the badlands of India seems like kid's stuff.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Four Stars
*by P***R on 4 June 2015*

Great

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Review
*by D***N on 5 June 2012*

Congratulations to Joel Brinkley for this 'warts and all' assessment of modern Cambodia. It is high time the truth was told about Hun Sen, his self-seeking regime and the wanton betrayal of a nation that has suffered enough. No-one escapes Brinkley's criticism, particularly the UN and Cambodia's donor nations, though he rightly reserves his most barbed passages for Hun Sen and the Cambodian People's Party. I could not put this book down and read it in three sittings. Brinkley's prose is highly readable and his arguments balanced and reasonable. He chooses his examples well and his compassion and sympathy for Cambodia's repressed citizens is palpable. There were several omissions that I would like to have seen included, though these in no way detract from a comprehensive picture of modern Cambodia. The notorious, incendiary, case of the murder of Piset Pilika shows the ruling elite in all its monstrosity, as does the acid attack on the nightclub singer Tat Marina. There is also no mention of the oligarch Sok Kong and the [unspecified] income he reaps from the ticket boothes at Angkor Wat. I intend no criticism. The plethora of case studies that pepper 'Cambodia's Curse' give a more than adequate picture of the continuing hardships and injustices visited on Khmer citizens. Please read this extraordinary book - modern Cambodia continues to be overlooked by the world, just as Cambodia was overlooked in the late 1970s. Joel Brinkley deserves huge credit for trying to change this state of affairs. 'Cambodia's Curse' by Joel Brinkley: highly recommended.

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