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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... Phim Secretary , Eastern Zone , 1954-78 First Vice President , suicided 3 June State Presidium 5. Penh Thuok Sok Thuok , Deputy Prime 1978 executed Vorn Vet Minister for the Economy , 1976-79 Dec. 1978 6. Moul Ros Nhim Sambath Secretary ...
... Phim Secretary , Eastern Zone , 1954-78 First Vice President , suicided 3 June State Presidium 5. Penh Thuok Sok Thuok , Deputy Prime 1978 executed Vorn Vet Minister for the Economy , 1976-79 Dec. 1978 6. Moul Ros Nhim Sambath Secretary ...
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... Phim , who had worked closely with the Vietnamese since the 1946-1954 war . He was more reluctant than Pol Pot to force a violent con- to his whereabouts . ( See Kiernan , How Pol Pot , pp . 198 , 241 n.135 . ) No evidence suggests that ...
... Phim , who had worked closely with the Vietnamese since the 1946-1954 war . He was more reluctant than Pol Pot to force a violent con- to his whereabouts . ( See Kiernan , How Pol Pot , pp . 198 , 241 n.135 . ) No evidence suggests that ...
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... Phim's eastern branch of the Cambodian communist insurgency was described by U.S. intelligence as being " in close liaison with the Viet Cong , " who sheltered them on Vietnamese soil when they were attacked by govern- ment forces ...
... Phim's eastern branch of the Cambodian communist insurgency was described by U.S. intelligence as being " in close liaison with the Viet Cong , " who sheltered them on Vietnamese soil when they were attacked by govern- ment forces ...
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... Phim was required by 1974 to abandon his longstanding cooperation with the Viet- namese communists . The next year the party triumphed over Lon Nol's U.S.- backed regime , two weeks before the Vietnamese communists won in their own ...
... Phim was required by 1974 to abandon his longstanding cooperation with the Viet- namese communists . The next year the party triumphed over Lon Nol's U.S.- backed regime , two weeks before the Vietnamese communists won in their own ...
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... Phim , to write Mok asking for the soldiers ' release , " but Mok resisted and said he didn't know anything about it . . . . We requested a meeting of representatives , for negotiations between the Eastern Zone and the Southwest . " The ...
... Phim , to write Mok asking for the soldiers ' release , " but Mok resisted and said he didn't know anything about it . . . . We requested a meeting of representatives , for negotiations between the Eastern Zone and the Southwest . " 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 |
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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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