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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... Peasants and Politics in Kampuchea , 1942-1981 ( co - author ) How Pol Pot Came To Power : A History of Communism in Kampuchea , 1930-1975 Cambodia : The Eastern Zone Massacres Burchett : Reporting the Other Side of the World , 1939 ...
... Peasants and Politics in Kampuchea , 1942-1981 ( co - author ) How Pol Pot Came To Power : A History of Communism in Kampuchea , 1930-1975 Cambodia : The Eastern Zone Massacres Burchett : Reporting the Other Side of the World , 1939 ...
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... An 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.
... An 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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... Peasants brought coconuts for the sol- diers , and a pig and a cow were slaughtered for them to eat . President Sam ... peasant recalls : " Some Cham villages completely disappeared ; only two or three people remained . We were ...
... Peasants brought coconuts for the sol- diers , and a pig and a cow were slaughtered for them to eat . President Sam ... peasant recalls : " Some Cham villages completely disappeared ; only two or three people remained . We were ...
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... peasants , and particularly their teenage children , who had no enduring ties to land or traditional village community . Fish and Rice Five thousand years ago the land of Cambodia did not exist . It lay submerged beneath the South China ...
... peasants , and particularly their teenage children , who had no enduring ties to land or traditional village community . Fish and Rice Five thousand years ago the land of Cambodia did not exist . It lay submerged beneath the South China ...
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... peasants with a difference . They had royal connections . Pol Pot's cousin had grown up a palace dancer , becoming one of King Monivong's principal wives . At fifteen , his eldest sister , Saroeung , was chosen as a consort . In 1928 ...
... peasants with a difference . They had royal connections . Pol Pot's cousin had grown up a palace dancer , becoming one of King Monivong's principal wives . At fifteen , his eldest sister , Saroeung , was chosen as a consort . In 1928 ...
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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