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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... radio announcement , " indicted " its author as an " arch war criminal . " Driven from Phnom Penh by the Vietnamese invasion of 1979 and having boycotted the United Nations - organized elections in 1993 , the Khmer Rouge forces were ...
... radio announcement , " indicted " its author as an " arch war criminal . " Driven from Phnom Penh by the Vietnamese invasion of 1979 and having boycotted the United Nations - organized elections in 1993 , the Khmer Rouge forces were ...
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... Phnom Penh . On 14 April , Samphan had replaced Sihanouk , becoming ... Cambodia's seat of government , local DK officials were suppressing one of Cambodia's ... Radio , 15 April 1976 , in U.S. Central Intelligence Agency , Foreign ...
... Phnom Penh . On 14 April , Samphan had replaced Sihanouk , becoming ... Cambodia's seat of government , local DK officials were suppressing one of Cambodia's ... Radio , 15 April 1976 , in U.S. Central Intelligence Agency , Foreign ...
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... Phnom Penh , and to evacuate the people out of Phnom Penh , temporarily . " Chakrey passed the order to his officers . He also secretly told Samrin that at an earlier Center meeting , a prominent revo- lutionary intellectual , Hou Yuon ...
... Phnom Penh , and to evacuate the people out of Phnom Penh , temporarily . " Chakrey passed the order to his officers . He also secretly told Samrin that at an earlier Center meeting , a prominent revo- lutionary intellectual , Hou Yuon ...
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... Phnom Penh was to be evacuated . " 14 A senior Southwest Zone cadre recalled ... radio at nine o'clock . How- ever , he was told by the only person at the ... radio . " Interview with author , Phnom Penh , 3 December 1991 . Stephen ...
... Phnom Penh was to be evacuated . " 14 A senior Southwest Zone cadre recalled ... radio at nine o'clock . How- ever , he was told by the only person at the ... radio . " Interview with author , Phnom Penh , 3 December 1991 . Stephen ...
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... Phnom Penh with his own troops and said he was preparing to form a ... radio technicians ; they broadcast his prerecorded appeal to the Khmer Rouge ... Phnom , and then headed west again , stopping in front of the ministry of information ...
... Phnom Penh with his own troops and said he was preparing to form a ... radio technicians ; they broadcast his prerecorded appeal to the Khmer Rouge ... Phnom , and then headed west again , stopping in front of the ministry of information ...
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 |
Common terms and phrases
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