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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... circle rose to dominate Cambodian com- munist ranks , secretly working more closely with Hanoi's rival , the Chinese Communist Party . Thus they excised their veteran predecessors from X • Preface to the Third Edition.
... circle rose to dominate Cambodian com- munist ranks , secretly working more closely with Hanoi's rival , the Chinese Communist Party . Thus they excised their veteran predecessors from X • Preface to the Third Edition.
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... Hanoi patrons largely welcomed the neutral for- eign policy of Prince Sihanouk's independent Kingdom of Cambodia , a re- gime Sar was determined to overturn by revolution . One exception was Long Bunruot , a veteran communist educated ...
... Hanoi patrons largely welcomed the neutral for- eign policy of Prince Sihanouk's independent Kingdom of Cambodia , a re- gime Sar was determined to overturn by revolution . One exception was Long Bunruot , a veteran communist educated ...
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... Hanoi's perfidy in- 24. See pp . 100-101 , 322-25 in this book . 25. " Bureaucracy of Death , " New Statesman , 2 May 1980 , cover and pp . 669 , 675 ; Sam- phan's statement was translated by the BBC Summary of World Broadcasts ; see ...
... Hanoi's perfidy in- 24. See pp . 100-101 , 322-25 in this book . 25. " Bureaucracy of Death , " New Statesman , 2 May 1980 , cover and pp . 669 , 675 ; Sam- phan's statement was translated by the BBC Summary of World Broadcasts ; see ...
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... A. Barnett , " Sabotage of the Defeated , " New Statesman , 25 Sep- tember 1981 , p . 14 ; Wilfred Burchett , Mekong Upstream , Hanoi : Red River , 1957 , p . 29 . Mekong and on to the sea . Fisherfolk dam the Introduction • 7.
... A. Barnett , " Sabotage of the Defeated , " New Statesman , 25 Sep- tember 1981 , p . 14 ; Wilfred Burchett , Mekong Upstream , Hanoi : Red River , 1957 , p . 29 . Mekong and on to the sea . Fisherfolk dam the Introduction • 7.
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... Hanoi from 1942 to 1945 ; according to their 1979 account , they found that " Vietnamese intellec- tuals spoke of Angkor as their own . " After the war the two men went on to Paris ; Thioeunn completed a degree in medicine and Chum a ...
... Hanoi from 1942 to 1945 ; according to their 1979 account , they found that " Vietnamese intellec- tuals spoke of Angkor as their own . " After the war the two men went on to Paris ; Thioeunn completed a degree in medicine and Chum a ...
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 |
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