The Pol Pot Regime: Race, Power, and Genocide in Cambodia Under the Khmer Rouge, 1975-79Yale University Press, 2008 M10 1 - 477 pages This edition of Ben Kiernan's account of the Cambodian revolution and genocide includes a new preface that takes the story up to 2008 and the UN-sponsored Khmer Rouge tribunal. Kiernan's other books include 'Blood and Soil: A World History of Genocide and Extermination from Sparta to Darfur' and 'How Pol Pot Came to Power'. |
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... Deuch , former commandant of the Khmer Rouge secret prison and extermination center , code - named S - 21 . From 1976 to 1979 , Deuch had run the prison , located at the former Tuol Sleng high school in Phnom Penh , over- seeing the ...
... Deuch , former commandant of the Khmer Rouge secret prison and extermination center , code - named S - 21 . From 1976 to 1979 , Deuch had run the prison , located at the former Tuol Sleng high school in Phnom Penh , over- seeing the ...
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... Deuch detailing the torture of the prisoner Hu Nim . 11. Elizabeth Becker , " An Innocent Abroad , " Far Eastern Economic Review , 7 August 1981 ; Anthony Barnett , " NS Evidence Forces Ieng Sary to Confess , " New Statesman , 1 August ...
... Deuch detailing the torture of the prisoner Hu Nim . 11. Elizabeth Becker , " An Innocent Abroad , " Far Eastern Economic Review , 7 August 1981 ; Anthony Barnett , " NS Evidence Forces Ieng Sary to Confess , " New Statesman , 1 August ...
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... Deuch , Ieng Sary , and Khieu Thirith certainly had little expectation of ever facing legal charges for their violations of international criminal law two decades earlier . Yet finally , in 2007 , all four were arraigned and jailed in ...
... Deuch , Ieng Sary , and Khieu Thirith certainly had little expectation of ever facing legal charges for their violations of international criminal law two decades earlier . Yet finally , in 2007 , all four were arraigned and jailed in ...
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... Deuch . Soon after Pol Pot's death in 1998 , Samphan and Nuon Chea surrendered to the Cambo- dian government , but until 2007 they continued to live in impunity in a fron- tier town near Thailand . There Samphan wrote his memoir ...
... Deuch . Soon after Pol Pot's death in 1998 , Samphan and Nuon Chea surrendered to the Cambo- dian government , but until 2007 they continued to live in impunity in a fron- tier town near Thailand . There Samphan wrote his memoir ...
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... Deuch : " we whipped him four or five times to break his stand , before taking him to be stuffed with water . " Samphan declared over the radio : " We must wipe out the enemy . . . neatly and thoroughly . . . and suppress all stripes of ...
... Deuch : " we whipped him four or five times to break his stand , before taking him to be stuffed with water . " Samphan declared over the radio : " We must wipe out the enemy . . . neatly and thoroughly . . . and suppress all stripes of ...
Contents
31 | |
CHAPTER EIGHT Power Politics 197677 | 313 |
CHAPTER ELEVEN The End of the Pol Pot Regime | 440 |
Select Bibliography | 467 |
Other editions - View all
The Pol Pot Regime: Race, Power, and Genocide in Cambodia Under the Khmer ... Ben Kiernan No preview available - 1996 |
The Pol Pot Regime: Race, Power, and Genocide in Cambodia Under the Khmer ... Ben Kiernan No preview available - 2008 |
The Pol Pot Regime: Race, Power, and Genocide in Cambodia Under the Khmer ... Ben Kiernan No preview available - 1996 |
Common terms and phrases
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