Volume 43, Number 18 · November 14, 1996
Tragedy in Cambodia
By William Shawcross
BOOKS DISCUSSED IN THIS ARTICLE
The Pol Pot Regime: Race, Power, and Genocide in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, 1975-79
by Ben Kiernan
Yale University Press, 477 pp., $35.00
Gecko Tails
by Carol Livingston
Weidenfeld and Nicolson (distributed in the US by Trafalgar Square), 262 pp., $35.00
Propaganda, Politics and Violence in Cambodia: Democratic Transition Under United Nations Peace-keeping
edited by Steve Heder, edited by Judy Ledgerwood
M.E. Sharpe, 277 pp., $24.95 (paper)
As each year—and each day—passes Cambodia seems more perplexing. The King, Norodom Sihanouk, has twice been crowned but now has little power; still, he maintains the aura of kingship and most Cambodians would feel that something terrible had happened if he abdicated or died. The country has two prime ministers running what amount to competitive administrations within one government. But one of them, Hun Sen, is much more powerful than the other, Sihanouk's son, Prince Norodom Ranariddh, whose relations with his father are uneasy.
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