Cambodia's Curse

<b>A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist describes how Cambodia emerged from the harrowing years when a quarter of its population perished under the Khmer Rouge.</b></br></br> 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. </br></br> 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 <i>Cambodia's Curse</i> illuminates the country its people and the deep historical roots of its modern-day behavior.