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. Preface to the Third Edition In July 2007 , the Cambodian and international co - prosecutors of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia ...
Race, Power, and Genocide in Cambodia Under the Khmer Rouge, 1975-79 Ben Kiernan. Preface to the Third Edition In July 2007 , the Cambodian and international co - prosecutors of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia ...
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... Cambodian na- tionalists and racial heroes . Rewriting their party's own history reinforced that xenophobic claim . Now in jail , the senior Khmer Rouge suspects appear to have resurrected racism and xenophobia , aiming to defend their ...
... Cambodian na- tionalists and racial heroes . Rewriting their party's own history reinforced that xenophobic claim . Now in jail , the senior Khmer Rouge suspects appear to have resurrected racism and xenophobia , aiming to defend their ...
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... Khmer Rouge further support . Pol Pot now claimed to have reached DK's official " retirement age " of sixty . Few believed that the Khmer Rouge had ever adopted a mandatory retirement age . Anyway , Pol Pot's mar- riage certificate had ...
... Khmer Rouge further support . Pol Pot now claimed to have reached DK's official " retirement age " of sixty . Few believed that the Khmer Rouge had ever adopted a mandatory retirement age . Anyway , Pol Pot's mar- riage certificate had ...
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... Khmer Rouge regime left behind voluminous archives that document its crimes , and the prosecution is expected to show- case them . " You are stupid , " Pol Pot's deputy Nuon Chea lashed out at Kang Khek lev , alias Deuch , former ...
... Khmer Rouge regime left behind voluminous archives that document its crimes , and the prosecution is expected to show- case them . " You are stupid , " Pol Pot's deputy Nuon Chea lashed out at Kang Khek lev , alias Deuch , former ...
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Race, Power, and Genocide in Cambodia Under the Khmer Rouge, 1975-79 Ben Kiernan. More than the horrifying oral accounts of surviving victims , whom Khmer Rouge leaders routinely ignore , the exposure and publication of their own ...
Race, Power, and Genocide in Cambodia Under the Khmer Rouge, 1975-79 Ben Kiernan. More than the horrifying oral accounts of surviving victims , whom Khmer Rouge leaders routinely ignore , the exposure and publication of their own ...
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 |
Common terms and phrases
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