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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... claiming to be three years younger , Sar received a French government scholarship to study in Paris . There , inspired by anti- colonial nationalism , he joined the French Communist Party , expressing his new political views under a ...
... claiming to be three years younger , Sar received a French government scholarship to study in Paris . There , inspired by anti- colonial nationalism , he joined the French Communist Party , expressing his new political views under a ...
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... claimed that " Pol Pot " had been a farmer , altogether omitting his childhood in the palace and Phnom Penh , and his four years in France . Asked in 1978 , " Who are you , comrade Pol Pot ? " he did mention having studied in France but ...
... claimed that " Pol Pot " had been a farmer , altogether omitting his childhood in the palace and Phnom Penh , and his four years in France . Asked in 1978 , " Who are you , comrade Pol Pot ? " he did mention having studied in France but ...
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... claimed to have reached DK's official " retirement age " of sixty . Few believed that the Khmer Rouge had ever adopted a mandatory retirement age . Anyway , Pol Pot's mar- riage certificate had suggested he was now only fifty - seven ...
... claimed to have reached DK's official " retirement age " of sixty . Few believed that the Khmer Rouge had ever adopted a mandatory retirement age . Anyway , Pol Pot's mar- riage certificate had suggested he was now only fifty - seven ...
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... claimed ignorance of the unfolding tragedy , given that rarely - specified " Khmer Rouge leaders " ( not him ) had failed to keep Samphan informed . " I neither knew about nor was involved in the massacre , " he asserted.21 Of all DK's ...
... claimed ignorance of the unfolding tragedy , given that rarely - specified " Khmer Rouge leaders " ( not him ) had failed to keep Samphan informed . " I neither knew about nor was involved in the massacre , " he asserted.21 Of all DK's ...
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... claimed Hu Nim as " one of my friends , " and recoiled at the " suffer- ing in his soul and in his body , what a nightmare . " This performance cannot assure us of Samphan's claimed naivete — nor that at the time he " was un- aware even ...
... claimed Hu Nim as " one of my friends , " and recoiled at the " suffer- ing in his soul and in his body , what a nightmare . " This performance cannot assure us of Samphan's claimed naivete — nor that at the time he " was un- aware even ...
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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