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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... Svay Sor , and asked to meet local officials . The soldiers were Khmer Krom , or Lowland Khmers , members of Viet- nam's million - strong ethnic Khmer minority . Recruited by U.S. Special Forces in the 1960s to fight communism in the ...
... Svay Sor , and asked to meet local officials . The soldiers were Khmer Krom , or Lowland Khmers , members of Viet- nam's million - strong ethnic Khmer minority . Recruited by U.S. Special Forces in the 1960s to fight communism in the ...
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... Svay Sor in April 1976. He saw the newcomers cross the border and was later told of their fate by local Khmer Rouge supporters . Interview , 26 August 1980 , Preah Bat Chuon Chum , Kirivong district . because their minds could not be ...
... Svay Sor in April 1976. He saw the newcomers cross the border and was later told of their fate by local Khmer Rouge supporters . Interview , 26 August 1980 , Preah Bat Chuon Chum , Kirivong district . because their minds could not be ...
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... Svay Att , Prey Veng district , Prey Veng Province , 17 January 1986. Chem was then probably the only sur- viving witness to the 1942 demonstration ; he is the only one to have provided an estimate of the size of the crowd . He studied ...
... Svay Att , Prey Veng district , Prey Veng Province , 17 January 1986. Chem was then probably the only sur- viving witness to the 1942 demonstration ; he is the only one to have provided an estimate of the size of the crowd . He studied ...
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... Svay , 16 October 1980 . 73. Kate G. Frieson , The Impact of Revolution on Cambodian Peasants , 1970-1975 , Ph.D.diss . , Department of Politics , Monash University , Australia , 1991 , p . 244 . 74. Ponchaud , Cambodia Year Zero , p ...
... Svay , 16 October 1980 . 73. Kate G. Frieson , The Impact of Revolution on Cambodian Peasants , 1970-1975 , Ph.D.diss . , Department of Politics , Monash University , Australia , 1991 , p . 244 . 74. Ponchaud , Cambodia Year Zero , p ...
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... Svay , 16 October 1980 . 110. In an interview with the author on 21 January 1986 , Mat Ly had begun with Song's point no . 1 : " Expel people from the cities . " In an interview with Jeremy Stone and Gregory Stanton on 11 July 1991 , Ly ...
... Svay , 16 October 1980 . 110. In an interview with the author on 21 January 1986 , Mat Ly had begun with Song's point no . 1 : " Expel people from the cities . " In an interview with Jeremy Stone and Gregory Stanton on 11 July 1991 , Ly ...
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 |
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