A generation after the Khmer Rouge, Cambodia shows every sign of
having overcome its history- the streets of Phnom Penh are paved
skyscrapers dot the skyline. But under this façade lies a country
still haunted by its years of terror. Joel Brinkley won a Pulitzer
Prize for his reporting in Cambodia on the fall of the Khmer Rouge
regime that killed one quarter of the nation's population during
its years in power. In 1992, the world came together to help pull
the small nation out of the mire. Cambodia became a United Nations
protectorate- the first and only time the UN tried something so
ambitious. What did the new, democratically-elected government do
with this unprecedented gift? In 2008 and 2009, Brinkley returned
to Cambodia to find out. He discovered a population in the grip of
a venal government. He learned that one-third to one-half of
Cambodians who lived through the Khmer Rouge era have P.T.S.D.- and
its afflictions are being passed to the next generation. His
extensive close-up reporting in Cambodia's Curse illuminates the
country, its people, and the deep historical roots of its
modern-day behaviour.
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