"In 2008, Brinkley, awarded the 1980 Pulitzer Prize for a series on Cambodia for the Louisville Courier Journal, returned to that country for the first time in three decades to pick up where hed left off. His conclusion: Cambodians remain the most abused people in the world. From the Pol Pot regime (197579) that oversaw the deaths of as many as three million Cambodians by execution, disease, or starvation to the clutch of rulers, particularly Hun Sen, who helped squander an estimated $3 billion of UN aid while leaving their people destitute, Brinkley details the breadth and depth of the self-inflicted calamities that have beset the country for more than 35 years, offering only faint hope for the near future. A heartbreaking but vital status report on a people who deserve far better." (Booklist Reviews) Check Our Catalog
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