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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... Nuon Chea . After taking to the jungle in armed opposition to Si- hanouk , Sar and Chea launched a new insurgency in 1967. They saw war and secrecy as " the basis " of the revolution.2 It was in this period that Saloth Sar adopted the ...
... Nuon Chea . After taking to the jungle in armed opposition to Si- hanouk , Sar and Chea launched a new insurgency in 1967. They saw war and secrecy as " the basis " of the revolution.2 It was in this period that Saloth Sar adopted the ...
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... Nuon Chea and Deuch had separately fled into exile on the remote Thai border . After reaching the frontier , Chea had learned of Deuch's failure to destroy the prison's archives before their flight from Phnom Penh . Chea was furious at ...
... Nuon Chea and Deuch had separately fled into exile on the remote Thai border . After reaching the frontier , Chea had learned of Deuch's failure to destroy the prison's archives before their flight from Phnom Penh . Chea was furious at ...
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... Nuon Chea , 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 ...
... Nuon Chea , 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 ...
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... Nuon Chea , Ieng Sary , Khieu Thirith , and 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 ...
... Nuon Chea , Ieng Sary , Khieu Thirith , and 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 ...
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... Nuon Chea , and Ieng Sary . At this se- cret meeting , Pol Pot first targeted a Khmer Rouge general , Chan Chakrey . He said , " We must pay attention to what he says , to see [ if ] he is a traitor who will deprive himself of any ...
... Nuon Chea , and Ieng Sary . At this se- cret meeting , Pol Pot first targeted a Khmer Rouge general , Chan Chakrey . He said , " We must pay attention to what he says , to see [ if ] he is a traitor who will deprive himself of any ...
Contents
31 | |
CHAPTER EIGHT Power Politics 197677 | 313 |
CHAPTER ELEVEN The End of the Pol Pot Regime | 440 |
Select Bibliography | 467 |
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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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