CAMBODIA
-- POL POT'S SHADOW:
The companion web-site to a 2002 Frontline World PBS documentary in which
reporter Amanda Pike conducts an investigation that leads to "Brother Number
Two," the former Khmer Rouge commander.
CONTEMPORARY AFGHANISTAN -- THE LAST SIXTY YEARS (1919-1979): A short excerpt from Sayed Qasim Reshtya's 1984 book Price of Liberty -- The Tragedy of Afghanistan.
COUNTRY
STUDY -- INDONESIA: A
general introduction to Indonesia from the U.S. Library of Congress.
COUNTRY
STUDY -- PAKISTAN: A
general introduction to Pakistan from the U.S. Library of Congress.
FACING
DEATH -- PORTRAITS FROM CAMBODIA'S KILLING FIELDS:
A University of California Riverside- California Museum of Photography joint
project that documents the genocide associated with the Tuol Sleng
interrogation center.
IDEAS WITH IMPACT: 20
concepts that defined the Asian region over the past century.
KOREA -- 1945-PRESENT: An excellent synopsis from Columbia University's East Asian Curriculum Project.
, "1959: DALAI LAMA ESCAPES TO INDIA": A contemporary article from the
BBC archives.
ROLE OF AFGHANISTAN IN THE FALL OF THE USSR: A short analysis by Rameen Moshref for Afghanistan Online.
SINGAPORE -- HISTORY: A concise overview from the Asian Network Information Center at the University of Texas.
TOUL SLENG GENOCIDE MUSEUM:
A tourist site on the infamous Cambodian museum, once a high school but
transformed in 1975 into the S-21 interrogation and detention center.