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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... Thailand and Vietnam , who served beginning in 1962 as Sar's deputy party secretary under the nom de guerre Nuon ... Thai border . Their anti - Vietnamese cause had already attracted U.S. sup- port for the Khmer Rouge , but Pol Pot's ...
... Thailand and Vietnam , who served beginning in 1962 as Sar's deputy party secretary under the nom de guerre Nuon ... Thai border . Their anti - Vietnamese cause had already attracted U.S. sup- port for the Khmer Rouge , but Pol Pot's ...
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... Thai border until defections and mu- tinies broke it up in 1996-98 . He apparently died in his sleep in the jungle on 15 April 1998. He never faced trial for his crimes . Indeed , from 1979 to 1992 , the United Nations , at the ...
... Thai border until defections and mu- tinies broke it up in 1996-98 . He apparently died in his sleep in the jungle on 15 April 1998. He never faced trial for his crimes . Indeed , from 1979 to 1992 , the United Nations , at the ...
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... Thai border . After reaching the frontier , Chea had learned of Deuch's failure to destroy the prison's archives before their flight from Phnom Penh . Chea was furious at this failure of his planned cover - up . On that morning of 7 ...
... Thai border . After reaching the frontier , Chea had learned of Deuch's failure to destroy the prison's archives before their flight from Phnom Penh . Chea was furious at this failure of his planned cover - up . On that morning of 7 ...
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... Thai border , where he joined Nuon Chea , Ieng Sary , Khieu Thirith , and Deuch . Soon after Pol Pot's death in 1998 ... Thailand . There Samphan wrote his memoir , entitled Cambodia's Recent History and My Successive Standpoints , and ...
... Thai border , where he joined Nuon Chea , Ieng Sary , Khieu Thirith , and Deuch . Soon after Pol Pot's death in 1998 ... Thailand . There Samphan wrote his memoir , entitled Cambodia's Recent History and My Successive Standpoints , and ...
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... Thai - Cambodian border . Referring to the Cambodian Genocide Program , a Yale research proj- ect I founded with a State Department grant to document the Khmer Rouge era , 1 Pol Pot's radio station alleged that " the Australian Ben ...
... Thai - Cambodian border . Referring to the Cambodian Genocide Program , a Yale research proj- ect I founded with a State Department grant to document the Khmer Rouge era , 1 Pol Pot's radio station alleged that " the Australian Ben ...
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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Common terms and phrases
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