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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Race, Power, and Genocide in Cambodia Under the Khmer Rouge, 1975-79 Ben Kiernan. Communist Party . Thus they excised ... genocidal record quickly became an embarrassment to both.3 In exile in 1985 , Pol Pot finally told the truth about 2 ...
Race, Power, and Genocide in Cambodia Under the Khmer Rouge, 1975-79 Ben Kiernan. Communist Party . Thus they excised ... genocidal record quickly became an embarrassment to both.3 In exile in 1985 , Pol Pot finally told the truth about 2 ...
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... genocides , and mixed international and national courts have begun try- ing defendants in Sierra Leone , Kosovo , East Timor , and now Cambodia . The search for international accountability for genocide has had other ef- fects too ...
... genocides , and mixed international and national courts have begun try- ing defendants in Sierra Leone , Kosovo , East Timor , and now Cambodia . The search for international accountability for genocide has had other ef- fects too ...
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Race, Power, and Genocide in Cambodia Under the Khmer Rouge, 1975-79 Ben Kiernan. surgency.17 After the rebels defeated Sihanouk's successor , Lon Nol in , 1975 , the Cpk named Samphan the new head of state the next year . He also held ...
Race, Power, and Genocide in Cambodia Under the Khmer Rouge, 1975-79 Ben Kiernan. surgency.17 After the rebels defeated Sihanouk's successor , Lon Nol in , 1975 , the Cpk named Samphan the new head of state the next year . He also held ...
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... genocide and prefer to blame the Vietnamese , as Samphan often still tries to do . But he cannot plau- sibly claim ignorance of high - level Cpk policy . His memoir says he joined the party Central Committee as a candidate member in ...
... genocide and prefer to blame the Vietnamese , as Samphan often still tries to do . But he cannot plau- sibly claim ignorance of high - level Cpk policy . His memoir says he joined the party Central Committee as a candidate member in ...
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Race, Power, and Genocide in Cambodia Under the Khmer Rouge, 1975-79 Ben Kiernan. only of an occasionally " enlarged ... genocidal regime has its own logic of distraction and denial . It reveals almost nothing of the carnage of his people ...
Race, Power, and Genocide in Cambodia Under the Khmer Rouge, 1975-79 Ben Kiernan. only of an occasionally " enlarged ... genocidal regime has its own logic of distraction and denial . It reveals almost nothing of the carnage of his people ...
Contents
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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 |
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