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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... Tuol Sleng high school in Phnom Penh , over- seeing the torture and murder of about fourteen thousand inmates . Like Pol Pot , when their regime fell , Nuon Chea and Deuch had separately fled into exile on the remote Thai border . After ...
... Tuol Sleng high school in Phnom Penh , over- seeing the torture and murder of about fourteen thousand inmates . Like Pol Pot , when their regime fell , Nuon Chea and Deuch had separately fled into exile on the remote Thai border . After ...
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... Tuol Sleng prison , DK's nerve center , was discovered by the British journalist Nic Dunlop wearing a T - shirt with the logo of the American Refugee Committee and proclaiming himself born again . " I had a difficult life and I decided ...
... Tuol Sleng prison , DK's nerve center , was discovered by the British journalist Nic Dunlop wearing a T - shirt with the logo of the American Refugee Committee and proclaiming himself born again . " I had a difficult life and I decided ...
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... Tuol Sleng , many other Cambodians left invaluable traces of their struggles in autobiographical " con- fessions , " not so difficult to interpret as they were to compose — under torture before execution . The staff of the Tuol Sleng ...
... Tuol Sleng , many other Cambodians left invaluable traces of their struggles in autobiographical " con- fessions , " not so difficult to interpret as they were to compose — under torture before execution . The staff of the Tuol Sleng ...
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... Tuol Sleng prison records , 1980 . These fifty - seven Muslims were all arrested in DK's Region 25 , southern Kandal province , and sent to Takhmau , site of the predecessor of Tuol Sleng , on 29 April 1976 . dozen Cham families escaped ...
... Tuol Sleng prison records , 1980 . These fifty - seven Muslims were all arrested in DK's Region 25 , southern Kandal province , and sent to Takhmau , site of the predecessor of Tuol Sleng , on 29 April 1976 . dozen Cham families escaped ...
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... Tuol Sleng prison in Phnom Penh . Before his execution , he " confessed " under torture that he was an " internal enemy " of Democratic Kampuchea . Back in Kirivong district , fighting had broken out with Vietnamese troops across the ...
... Tuol Sleng prison in Phnom Penh . Before his execution , he " confessed " under torture that he was an " internal enemy " of Democratic Kampuchea . Back in Kirivong district , fighting had broken out with Vietnamese troops across the ...
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
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