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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... Southwest Zone , its ruling party committee . In 1973-74 , four of the eight leaders of this zone committee Were purged . Two of these Cpk moderates were murdered by Pol Pot allies Mok and Vorn Vet . The other two were killed after 1975 ...
... Southwest Zone , its ruling party committee . In 1973-74 , four of the eight leaders of this zone committee Were purged . Two of these Cpk moderates were murdered by Pol Pot allies Mok and Vorn Vet . The other two were killed after 1975 ...
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... Southwest Zone . They were forced to perform hard labor before being executed.72 In the Northern Zone of the country , where Pol Pot was based , B - 52s struck Stung Kambot village one morning in February 1973. They killed fifty ...
... Southwest Zone . They were forced to perform hard labor before being executed.72 In the Northern Zone of the country , where Pol Pot was based , B - 52s struck Stung Kambot village one morning in February 1973. They killed fifty ...
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... Zone's 1st Division , deployed southeast of Phnom Penh . Its commander was a veteran revolutionary , the 173rd's ... Southwest Zone Division , commanded by Muth , son - in - law of the Zone Cpk secretary Mok , and the 1st Southwest ...
... Zone's 1st Division , deployed southeast of Phnom Penh . Its commander was a veteran revolutionary , the 173rd's ... Southwest Zone Division , commanded by Muth , son - in - law of the Zone Cpk secretary Mok , and the 1st Southwest ...
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... Southwest Zone cadre recalled in 1980 that the evacuation of Phnom Penh " had been a long - standing plan ... [ Zone ] was to make its own decision . People were supposed to go wherever they could . " 15 Some Southwest Zone troops , told ...
... Southwest Zone cadre recalled in 1980 that the evacuation of Phnom Penh " had been a long - standing plan ... [ Zone ] was to make its own decision . People were supposed to go wherever they could . " 15 Some Southwest Zone troops , told ...
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... Southwest Zone forces were forcibly emptying parts of the city , whereas the Eastern forces occupying the riverbank near the pagoda were not . At the information ministry . So Hay met a " high - ranking Khmer Rouge officer " who ...
... Southwest Zone forces were forcibly emptying parts of the city , whereas the Eastern forces occupying the riverbank near the pagoda were not . At the information ministry . So Hay met a " high - ranking Khmer Rouge officer " who ...
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 |
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