Elizabeth beckers when the war was over cambodia and the khmer rouge revolution is a heart rending history of modern cambodia a state whose people have in the last 30 years endured war political upheaval international betrayal and genocide beginning with the khmer rouge overthrow of the us backed lon nol regime in 1975 becker examines the historical patterns of violence and authority within cambodian culture that made the khmer rouges slaughter of close to 2 million people possible. After the khmer rouge embarked on a revolution in 1975 that brought unprecedented terror and destruction to cambodia elizabeth becker who covered the country for . Elizabeth beckers when the war was over cambodia and the khmer rouge revolution is a heart rending history of modern cambodia a state whose people have in the last 30 years endured war political upheaval international betrayal and genocide beginning with the khmer rouge overthrow of the us backed lon nol regime in 1975 becker examines the historical patterns of violence and . When the war was over cambodia and the khmer rouge revolution revised edition elizabeth becker award winning journalist elizabeth becker started covering cambodia in 1973 for the washington post when the country was perceived as little more than a footnote to the vietnam war. Get this from a library when the war was over cambodia and the khmer rouge revolution revised edition elizabeth becker the definitive book on the cambodian revolution los angeles times book review and winner of the robert f kennedy book award now with an extensive new chapter on todays cambodia