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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Page ix
... Pol Pot regime had committed serious crimes " as part of a common criminal plan constituting a systematic and unlawful denial of basic rights of the Cambodian population and the targeted persecution of specific groups . " The co ...
... Pol Pot regime had committed serious crimes " as part of a common criminal plan constituting a systematic and unlawful denial of basic rights of the Cambodian population and the targeted persecution of specific groups . " The co ...
Page xi
... Pol Pot Plans the Future : Confidential Lead- ership Documents from Democratic Kampuchea , 1976-77 , New Haven : Yale Council on Southeast Asia Studies , 1988 , p . 221 . 3. U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger told Thailand's ...
... Pol Pot Plans the Future : Confidential Lead- ership Documents from Democratic Kampuchea , 1976-77 , New Haven : Yale Council on Southeast Asia Studies , 1988 , p . 221 . 3. U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger told Thailand's ...
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... Pol Pot's use of Angkar as a personal pseudonym , see Document VIII , " Introduc- tion , " in Pol Pot Plans the Future : Confidential Leadership Documents from Democratic Kampuchea , 1976-1977 , ed . D. P. Chandler , Ben Kiernan , and ...
... Pol Pot's use of Angkar as a personal pseudonym , see Document VIII , " Introduc- tion , " in Pol Pot Plans the Future : Confidential Leadership Documents from Democratic Kampuchea , 1976-1977 , ed . D. P. Chandler , Ben Kiernan , and ...
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... Pol Pot a model of ethnic as well as ideological purity , one that disregarded Korea's distinct ethnic homo- geneity ... Pol Pot Plans the Future , p . 12. On Khmer Rouge antimaterialist ideology , see Kiernan , " Kampuchea and Stalinism ...
... Pol Pot a model of ethnic as well as ideological purity , one that disregarded Korea's distinct ethnic homo- geneity ... Pol Pot Plans the Future , p . 12. On Khmer Rouge antimaterialist ideology , see Kiernan , " Kampuchea and Stalinism ...
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... plan another work on twentieth - century revolution , nationalism , and genocide . But I believe this book already outlines , besides the violent origins , social context , and course of the Cambodian revolution , the role played in it ...
... plan another work on twentieth - century revolution , nationalism , and genocide . But I believe this book already outlines , besides the violent origins , social context , and course of the Cambodian revolution , the role played in it ...
Contents
31 | |
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
Angkar April arrested arrived August Author's interview Bangkok Post base Battambang border Boua Brother Cambodia Center Chandler Chhouk chief China Chinese commander communist CPK secretary December Democratic Kampuchea deputy Deuch district document Eastern Zone enemy ethnic evacuated executed families forces former Genocide Hanoi Heder Heng Samrin Hou Yuon hundred Ieng Sary January July Kampot Kampuchea Krom Khieu Samphan Khmer Krom Khmer Rouge Kiernan killed Kirivong Koh Kong Kompong Cham leaders Lon Nol March Mekong military months Northern Zone Northwest November Nuon Chea October officials party peasants Phim Phnom Penh Phnom Penh Radio Pol Pot Pol Pot Plans political population Pot's Preah Prey Veng prison province Pursat recalls refugees regime Region 25 reported revolution rice Santebal says September 1980 Sihanouk soldiers Southwest Zone subdistrict Svay Takeo Thai Thailand thousand Thuon told tons troops Tuol Sleng Vickery Vietnam Vietnamese village Vorn Vet workers