Why Did They Kill? Cambodia in the Shadow of Genocide

Of all the horrors human beings perpetrate, genocide stands near the top of the list. Its toll is staggering: well over 100 million dead worldwide. Why Did They Kill? is one of the first anthropological attempts to analyze the origins of such large-scale genocide. In it, Alexander Hinton focuses on the devastation that took place in Cambodia from April 1975 to January 1979 under the Khmer Rouge in order to explore why mass murder happens and what motivates perpetrators to kill.

Author: Alexander Laban Hinton

Publisher: University of California Press

Released Date: 2005

ISBN: 9780520241794