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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... CHAM PURSAT 20 11 KON KONG 33 : Kompong Som BEN KIERNAN The Pol Pot Regime Race , Power ,. ODDAR MEAN CHEY 104 5 44 ( 108 ) N 103 STUNG TRENG BATTAMBANG 3 ww Tonia 7 43 KOA ĐỘNG THONG C KRA TIE 42 41 21 lu : E KOMPONG KHANG 31 KOMPONG ...
... CHAM PURSAT 20 11 KON KONG 33 : Kompong Som BEN KIERNAN The Pol Pot Regime Race , Power ,. ODDAR MEAN CHEY 104 5 44 ( 108 ) N 103 STUNG TRENG BATTAMBANG 3 ww Tonia 7 43 KOA ĐỘNG THONG C KRA TIE 42 41 21 lu : E KOMPONG KHANG 31 KOMPONG ...
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... Kompong Cham . He missed World War II's tumultuous end in Phnom Penh , where nationalist youths forced the new boy king Norodom Sihanouk to briefly declare independence from France and Buddhist monks led Cambodian nationalists in common ...
... Kompong Cham . He missed World War II's tumultuous end in Phnom Penh , where nationalist youths forced the new boy king Norodom Sihanouk to briefly declare independence from France and Buddhist monks led Cambodian nationalists in common ...
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... Kompong Cham province had taken the lives of two hundred people . When another raid killed seven people nearby , a local peasant recalls , " some people ran away . . . others joined the revolution . " 56 In 1971 , the town of Angkor ...
... Kompong Cham province had taken the lives of two hundred people . When another raid killed seven people nearby , a local peasant recalls , " some people ran away . . . others joined the revolution . " 56 In 1971 , the town of Angkor ...
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... Kompong Cham province in 1957 , but said he had secretly left for Hanoi the next year , returning to Cambodia in 1962 to organize the underground . When Becker asked him about Western journal- ists who had disappeared in communist zones ...
... Kompong Cham province in 1957 , but said he had secretly left for Hanoi the next year , returning to Cambodia in 1962 to organize the underground . When Becker asked him about Western journal- ists who had disappeared in communist zones ...
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... Kompong Cham province on 8 March.114 An ex - monk also recognized Hou Yuon at Oudong , north of Phnom Penh , on 17 April . Yuon , escorted by soldiers , was traveling in a jeep heading very fast towards the surrendered capital . 115 The ...
... Kompong Cham province on 8 March.114 An ex - monk also recognized Hou Yuon at Oudong , north of Phnom Penh , on 17 April . Yuon , escorted by soldiers , was traveling in a jeep heading very fast towards the surrendered capital . 115 The ...
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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