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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... Communism in Kampuchea , 1930-1975 Cambodia : The Eastern Zone Massacres Burchett : Reporting the Other Side of the World , 1939-1983 ( editor ) Genocide and Democracy in Cambodia : The Khmer Rouge , the United Nations , and the ...
... Communism in Kampuchea , 1930-1975 Cambodia : The Eastern Zone Massacres Burchett : Reporting the Other Side of the World , 1939-1983 ( editor ) Genocide and Democracy in Cambodia : The Khmer Rouge , the United Nations , and the ...
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... communist underground , which the country's ruler , Prince Norodom Sihanouk , labeled the Khmers Rouges ( Cambodian Reds ) . Equally secretly , under their new shadowy leader then code - named simply Pol , these insurgents adopted the ...
... communist underground , which the country's ruler , Prince Norodom Sihanouk , labeled the Khmers Rouges ( Cambodian Reds ) . Equally secretly , under their new shadowy leader then code - named simply Pol , these insurgents adopted the ...
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... communists , most with elite backgrounds and French training . During the 1960s , this radical group displaced most of the older , more moderate former Buddhist monks and peas- ants who had founded the party under Vietnamese communist ...
... communists , most with elite backgrounds and French training . During the 1960s , this radical group displaced most of the older , more moderate former Buddhist monks and peas- ants who had founded the party under Vietnamese communist ...
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... Communist Party . Thus they excised their veteran predecessors from the Cpk's official history by changing its name in 1966 from Workers ' Party of Kampuchea , and a decade later , they rewrote its founding narrative by mov- ing the ...
... Communist Party . Thus they excised their veteran predecessors from the Cpk's official history by changing its name in 1966 from Workers ' Party of Kampuchea , and a decade later , they rewrote its founding narrative by mov- ing the ...
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... Communist Party , and he received his doctorate for an intelligent dissertation on economics at the University of Paris . Returning to Phnom Penh , he es- tablished a French - language weekly newspaper , and in 1962 Prince Si- hanouk ...
... Communist Party , and he received his doctorate for an intelligent dissertation on economics at the University of Paris . Returning to Phnom Penh , he es- tablished a French - language weekly newspaper , and in 1962 Prince Si- hanouk ...
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 |
Common terms and phrases
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