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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... 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 official date of the Party's 1951 " First Congress " forward to 1960 , when ...
... 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 official date of the Party's 1951 " First Congress " forward to 1960 , when ...
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... official in the Eastern Zone , where Muslim Chams had recently revolted , complained to Pol Pot of his inability to ... officials in Ke Pauk's Northern Zone had barred the way to the ini- tial 50,000 Cham arrivals . They " absolutely ...
... official in the Eastern Zone , where Muslim Chams had recently revolted , complained to Pol Pot of his inability to ... officials in Ke Pauk's Northern Zone had barred the way to the ini- tial 50,000 Cham arrivals . They " absolutely ...
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... officials were suppressing one of Cambodia's significant ethnic minorities , the Muslim Chams . As the White Scarves waited in the neighboring province for a response from Samphan , DK officials banned Islarn , closed the local mosque ...
... officials were suppressing one of Cambodia's significant ethnic minorities , the Muslim Chams . As the White Scarves waited in the neighboring province for a response from Samphan , DK officials banned Islarn , closed the local mosque ...
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... officials , and Christian missionaries never converted more than a few thousand Khmers . Yet the country had already undergone major transformations by the middle of the twentieth century . 10 Under French colonial rule from 1863 , tra ...
... officials , and Christian missionaries never converted more than a few thousand Khmers . Yet the country had already undergone major transformations by the middle of the twentieth century . 10 Under French colonial rule from 1863 , tra ...
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... officials , or thronged Buddhist fes- tivities in Kompong Thom's pagoda . In 1929 , a French official described Kom- 17. Interview of Comrade Pol Pot . to the Delegation of Yugoslav Journalists in Visit to Democratic Kampuchea , DK ...
... officials , or thronged Buddhist fes- tivities in Kompong Thom's pagoda . In 1929 , a French official described Kom- 17. Interview of Comrade Pol Pot . to the Delegation of Yugoslav Journalists in Visit to Democratic Kampuchea , DK ...
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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