Cambodian Refugees In Cambodia's Curse By Joel Brinkley

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Cambodia’s Curse is a popular book by Joel Brinkley recorded the modern history of an ancient land country from Southeast Asia. Joel Brinkley who is a famous American syndicated columnist had got the Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting. In Cambodia’s Cruse, Joel interviewed a lot of important people including Cambodian politicians, the United States ambassador, journalists and Cambodian refugees based on his experience as professional journalist. In addition, Joel found a large number of researches and studies to analyze this country and ethic in different aspects such as regime, political power, education, foreigner aids. His work helps readers comprehend the real Cambodia in a complete overview, and analyze origins of suffering life of Cambodian refugees …show more content…
In many chapters , Joel paid much more attention on the regime in Cambodia. He collected a lot of researches from different parties. Actually, I am really interested and shocked in regime by Khmer Rouge. It was most dark period in Cambodia by ruling of Khmer Rouge. Joel narrated experiences and stories from Kenneth Quinn and Charles Twininig in a chapter. Quinn was a young State Department officer in Chau Doc who witnessed the beginning of a horror show in Cambodia. On the hilltop, he saw a complete preparation for a seriously future threat. In some days later, he saw that Cambodian refugees fled into Vietnam likes a huge wave which means threat began. In Quinn’s records and notes, the Khmer Rouge such as totalitarian in Nazi Germany kicked people out eastern Cambodian area, burned people’s house and started a Khmer Krahom’s program to grab ruling powers from Lon Nol’s government. However, it was only a beginning. There were some information from Charles Twinning who was also a State Department officer during that period. Twinning interviewed some refugees in Phnom Pehn that life in Cambodia was really harsh. The Khmer Communists listed serious
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