Research Catalog

Title

Beyond the killing fields / photos by Kari René Hall ; text by Josh Getlin and Kari René Hall ; edited by Marshall Lumsden.

Author

Hall, Kari René.

Publication

Hong Kong : Asia 2000, 1992.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Getlin, Josh.
• California State University, Long Beach
• Aperture Foundation

Description

216 p. : ill., map; 29 cm.

Summary

This book is a photographic witness of the lifestyle of displaced Cambodians who still live in camps on the Thai border. The book draws its title from the Khmer Rouge genocide that took the lives of more that one million Cambodians from 1975 to 1979. When Vietnamese troops intervened in 1979, thousands of Cambodians sought refuge along the Thai border, many of them in settlements just inside Cambodia, hoping for a quick return home. However, civil war broke out in Cambodia and the border camps that had been set up to temporarily house displaced persons became outposts for Cambodian resistance leaders and were thus military targets. In 1985 the Vietnamese and allied Cambodian forces drove the inhabitants of the camps over the border into Thailand, where an estimated 350,000 still live in dusty, crowded camps, subject to artillery bombardments. There are eight such camps, Site 2 being the largest with an estimated 200,000 residents. Because the Cambodians are labelled 'displaced persons' rather than 'refugees', they are not eligible for resettlement and do not qualify for UNHCR protection. A new international organization, the United Nations Border Relief Operations (UNBRO) was established to distribute food, water and housing material to the camps on a temporary basis.

Subject

• Since 1975
• Political atrocities > Cambodia > Pictorial works
• Political refugees > Cambodia > Pictorial works
• Cambodians > Thailand > Pictorial works
• Cambodia > Politics and government

Genre/Form

• History
• Pictorial works

Note

• "A message from H.H. the Dalai Lama and foreword by Dith Pran"--cover.
• "An Aperture book."

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

A message from the Dalai Lama -- Foreword / Dith Pran -- Preface / Kari Rene Hall -- Looking into darkness / Josh Getlin -- Welcome to site 2, move along please -- Broken spirits slip over the edge -- Days of hoping, nights of violence -- A healing mixture of magic and medicine -- The quiet passing of ancient ways -- They do not know the water buffalo -- Nothing to do, no place to go -- 'I want to survive and make it on my own' -- The uphill struggle to keep beauty alive -- A brave rebuilding for a future Cambodia -- Acknowledgments -- Postscript.

ISBN

• 9627160237
• 9627160229 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 422119788
• SCSB-12258473

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library