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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... KHANG 31 KOMPONG Mekong 22 32 Phnom Penh PREY VENG KOMPONG SPEU 25 37 Gull NDAL SWAY RIENG 24 of Thailand SW 23 TAKEO 13 35 101 BAIAN KH 102 NE MONDUL KIRI 105 107 Legend Zor Bvdary Bossenal Di where deteres wat haa } FUDOZREŠ Boundary.
... KHANG 31 KOMPONG Mekong 22 32 Phnom Penh PREY VENG KOMPONG SPEU 25 37 Gull NDAL SWAY RIENG 24 of Thailand SW 23 TAKEO 13 35 101 BAIAN KH 102 NE MONDUL KIRI 105 107 Legend Zor Bvdary Bossenal Di where deteres wat haa } FUDOZREŠ Boundary.
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... Thailand . In a unique ideologi- cal amalgam of communism and racism , his DK regime simultaneously anni- hilated urban classes , considering them traitors contaminated by foreign in- fluences , and ethnic groups , which it stereotyped ...
... Thailand . In a unique ideologi- cal amalgam of communism and racism , his DK regime simultaneously anni- hilated urban classes , considering them traitors contaminated by foreign in- fluences , and ethnic groups , which it stereotyped ...
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... Thailand and Vietnam , who served beginning in 1962 as Sar's deputy party secretary under the nom de guerre Nuon ... Thailand's foreign minister on 26 Novem- ber 1975 , " You should also tell the Cambodians that we will be friends with ...
... Thailand and Vietnam , who served beginning in 1962 as Sar's deputy party secretary under the nom de guerre Nuon ... Thailand's foreign minister on 26 Novem- ber 1975 , " You should also tell the Cambodians that we will be friends with ...
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... Thailand in 1988 , he blamed most of his former regime's killings on " Vietnamese agents . " As for DK's massacres of defeated pro - U.S . leaders and troops , he insisted : " This strata of the imperialists had to be totally destroyed ...
... Thailand in 1988 , he blamed most of his former regime's killings on " Vietnamese agents . " As for DK's massacres of defeated pro - U.S . leaders and troops , he insisted : " This strata of the imperialists had to be totally destroyed ...
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... Thailand . There Samphan wrote his memoir , entitled Cambodia's Recent History and My Successive Standpoints , and published it in 2004 as the wheels of legal ac- countability slowly circled in on him . 18 The book reads like a prose ...
... Thailand . There Samphan wrote his memoir , entitled Cambodia's Recent History and My Successive Standpoints , and published it in 2004 as the wheels of legal ac- countability slowly circled in on him . 18 The book reads like a prose ...
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 |
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