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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... population . These groups qualify as protected groups under the Conven- tion : the Muslim Cham as an ethnic and religious group , the Vietnamese communities as an ethnic and , perhaps , a racial group ; and the Buddhist monkhood as a ...
... population . These groups qualify as protected groups under the Conven- tion : the Muslim Cham as an ethnic and religious group , the Vietnamese communities as an ethnic and , perhaps , a racial group ; and the Buddhist monkhood as a ...
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... population and the execution of their leadership.10 From 1999 to 2002 the UN pursued negotiations with the Cambodian gov- ernment with a view to establishing a joint tribunal to ensure legal account- ability for the Cambodian genocide ...
... population and the execution of their leadership.10 From 1999 to 2002 the UN pursued negotiations with the Cambodian gov- ernment with a view to establishing a joint tribunal to ensure legal account- ability for the Cambodian genocide ...
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... population rather than their actual 15-20 percent.2' DK was the only communist regime systemati- cally to disperse its minorities by force and to make punishable by death the use of minority and foreign languages . DK distinguished ...
... population rather than their actual 15-20 percent.2' DK was the only communist regime systemati- cally to disperse its minorities by force and to make punishable by death the use of minority and foreign languages . DK distinguished ...
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... population who lived in towns . Therefore Cambodia nearly com- prised two separate societies , with little exchange ... populations of Vietnamese , Chinese , and Lao , as well as Thais , the large Cham Islamic community , and ...
... population who lived in towns . Therefore Cambodia nearly com- prised two separate societies , with little exchange ... populations of Vietnamese , Chinese , and Lao , as well as Thais , the large Cham Islamic community , and ...
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... populations regionally significant , especially in strategic areas of Cam- bodia's periphery but also , in the case ... population . A mass of politically aware teachers and students comprised an entirely new Cambodian phenomenon , and ...
... populations regionally significant , especially in strategic areas of Cam- bodia's periphery but also , in the case ... population . A mass of politically aware teachers and students comprised an entirely new Cambodian phenomenon , and ...
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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