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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... Indentured Agrarian State , 1975–77 ( II ) : Peasants and Deportees in the Northwest 216 CHAPTER SEVEN Ethnic Cleansing : The CPK and Cambodia's Minorities , 1975-77 251 Part III : The Slate Crumbles , 1977-79 : Convulsion vii.
... Indentured Agrarian State , 1975–77 ( II ) : Peasants and Deportees in the Northwest 216 CHAPTER SEVEN Ethnic Cleansing : The CPK and Cambodia's Minorities , 1975-77 251 Part III : The Slate Crumbles , 1977-79 : Convulsion vii.
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... ethnic persecution . " They added , " The fac- tual allegations in this Introductory Submission constitute crimes against hu- manity , genocide , grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions , homicide , tor- ture and religious persecution ...
... ethnic persecution . " They added , " The fac- tual allegations in this Introductory Submission constitute crimes against hu- manity , genocide , grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions , homicide , tor- ture and religious persecution ...
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... ethnic violence , recalling the Lon Nol regime's 1970 mas- sacres when the Mekong River became choked with the bodies of ethnic Viet- 28 The nightmare of a recurrence , Samphan ominously warned the UN in 1992 , " might become a reality ...
... ethnic violence , recalling the Lon Nol regime's 1970 mas- sacres when the Mekong River became choked with the bodies of ethnic Viet- 28 The nightmare of a recurrence , Samphan ominously warned the UN in 1992 , " might become a reality ...
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... ethnic and religious group , the Vietnamese communities as an ethnic and , perhaps , a racial group ; and the Buddhist monkhood as a religious group . May 1999 , pp . 1 , 10 ; Ben Kiernan , " Notes from a Slaughterhouse , " Bangkok Post ...
... ethnic and religious group , the Vietnamese communities as an ethnic and , perhaps , a racial group ; and the Buddhist monkhood as a religious group . May 1999 , pp . 1 , 10 ; Ben Kiernan , " Notes from a Slaughterhouse , " Bangkok Post ...
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... ethnic minorities appears evidenced by such Khmer Rouge ac- tions as their announced policy of homogenization , the total prohibition of these groups ' distinctive cultural traits , their dispersal among the gen- eral population and the ...
... ethnic minorities appears evidenced by such Khmer Rouge ac- tions as their announced policy of homogenization , the total prohibition of these groups ' distinctive cultural traits , their dispersal among the gen- eral population and the ...
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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The Pol Pot Regime: Race, Power, and Genocide in Cambodia Under the Khmer ... Ben Kiernan No preview available - 1996 |
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Common terms and phrases
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