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<p> In Cambodia between 1975 and 1978 approximately 1.7 million people were killed by the radical communist movement led by Pol Pot. In 1994 Hutu extremists in Rwanda killed almost one million Tutsis. There could hardly be a more important intellectual project than to try to comprehend the root causes of these mass slaughters. This tightly edited volume is a product of Yale University's Genocide Studies Program... Some striking parallels are found between the genocide in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge and that in Rwanda after the death of Hutu leader President Habyarimana: an anti-urban, anti-intellectual ideology combined with the irrational pursuit of total self-reliance... Summing Up: Essential. Upper-division undergraduates through researchers and practitioners. <p> --R. Marlay, Choice <p> In Cambodia between 1975 and 1978 approximately 1.7 million people were killed by the radical communist movement led by Pol Pot. In 1994 Hutu extermists in Rwanda killed almost one million Tutsis. There could hardly be a more important intellectual project than to try to comprehend the root causes of these mass slaughters. This tightly edited volume is a product of Yale University's Genocide Studies Program. Five articles deal with Cambodia, four with Rwanda. All are solid and informative. <p> -- R. Marlay, Arkansas State University <p> [I]t deepens our understanding of the horrors of the two largest genocides of the second half of the last century. <p> --Ren Lemarchand, African Studies Review <p> The stories and especially the first-person narratives are quite moving... [E]ach chapter offers unusual insights into and analyses of sometimes overlooked and understudied dimensions of the genocides in both countries. <p> --Scott Straus, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Wisconsin/Madison

<p> In Cambodia between 1975 and 1978 approximately 1.7 million people were killed by the radical communist movement led by Pol Pot. In 1994 Hutu extermists in Rwanda killed almost one million Tutsis. There could hardly be a more important intellectual project than to try to comprehend the root causes of these mass slaughters. This tightly edited volume is a product of Yale University's Genocide Studies Program. Five articles deal with Cambodia, four with Rwanda. All are solid and informative. <p> -- R. Marlay, Arkansas State University <p> [I]t deepens our understanding of the horrors of the two largest genocides of the second half of the last century. <p> --Ren Lemarchand, African Studies Review <p> The stories and especially the first-person narratives are quite moving... [E]ach chapter offers unusual insights into and analyses of sometimes overlooked and understudied dimensions of the genocides in both countries. <p> --Scott Straus, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Wisconsin/Madison

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Susan E. Cook worked at the Cambodian Genocide Program at Yale University from 1994 to 2001. She is now senior lecturer in the Department of Anthropology and Archaeology at the University of Pretoria. She also lived and worked in Botswana from 1989 to 1991.

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