To galvanize international leaders to act, economists argue that it costs less to prevent genocide than it does to intervene in an ongoing atrocity and help rebuild a nation afterwards. This position is supported by…
Category: Cambodian Genocide
Trials Begin for Khmer Rouge Leaders, but can Justice be Achieved Decades after the Genocide?
Hearings began on October 17, 2014 for Khieu Samphan and Nuon Chea in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Samphan and Chea are the most senior surviving leaders of the Khmer Rouge (KR), the group responsible for murdering…