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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Page 43
... families north of Daeum Thkou market . " 54 A passerby saw " two piles of bodies in civilian clothes , as if two whole families had been killed , babies and all . Two pieces of hardboard stuck out of the pile , and someone had scrawled ...
... families north of Daeum Thkou market . " 54 A passerby saw " two piles of bodies in civilian clothes , as if two whole families had been killed , babies and all . Two pieces of hardboard stuck out of the pile , and someone had scrawled ...
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... families balancing on them and parents pushing . Those of us with cars were the lucky ones . Children cried out that they were being squashed in the crowd . Everywhere people were losing their relatives . " Patients driven out of the ...
... families balancing on them and parents pushing . Those of us with cars were the lucky ones . Children cried out that they were being squashed in the crowd . Everywhere people were losing their relatives . " Patients driven out of the ...
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... families walked for more than one month . During these treks , two people died , a month - old baby and an elderly woman . The other 374 people arrived safely at their destinations . That suggests a death rate on the trek of ...
... families walked for more than one month . During these treks , two people died , a month - old baby and an elderly woman . The other 374 people arrived safely at their destinations . That suggests a death rate on the trek of ...
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... families of evacuees would be sent to one village , another group to another , and so on . Two days after her arrival , Khmer Rouge shot Samon's husband dead , and later her father and brother as well.84 In northwest Cambodia , the ...
... families of evacuees would be sent to one village , another group to another , and so on . Two days after her arrival , Khmer Rouge shot Samon's husband dead , and later her father and brother as well.84 In northwest Cambodia , the ...
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... families would be able to join them soon , and that they would receive daily rations . And he " used in his speech for the first time the name of Norodom Sihanouk as Head of State . " Becker says this distinguished the newcomer from the ...
... families would be able to join them soon , and that they would receive daily rations . And he " used in his speech for the first time the name of Norodom Sihanouk as Head of State . " Becker says this distinguished the newcomer from 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 |
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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