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 ix
... prison and await trial almost three decades after the four - year reign of terror during which the regime presided over the deaths of about 1.7 million Cambodians , ethnic minorities , and citizens of neighboring countries . Yet the ...
... prison and await trial almost three decades after the four - year reign of terror during which the regime presided over the deaths of about 1.7 million Cambodians , ethnic minorities , and citizens of neighboring countries . Yet the ...
Page xiii
... prison and extermination center , code - named S - 21 . From 1976 to 1979 , Deuch had run the prison , located at the former Tuol Sleng high school in Phnom Penh , over- seeing the torture and murder of about fourteen thousand inmates ...
... prison and extermination center , code - named S - 21 . From 1976 to 1979 , Deuch had run the prison , located at the former Tuol Sleng high school in Phnom Penh , over- seeing the torture and murder of about fourteen thousand inmates ...
Page xv
... prison cell in The Hague in 2006 , Slobodan Milosevic of Serbia took the opportunity to deliver a five - hour courtroom ha- rangue that might have made a first draft of a self - serving autobiography . The rise of international criminal ...
... prison cell in The Hague in 2006 , Slobodan Milosevic of Serbia took the opportunity to deliver a five - hour courtroom ha- rangue that might have made a first draft of a self - serving autobiography . The rise of international criminal ...
Page xx
... , 1977- First Vice President , jailed Apr. People's Assem- bly ; Chief of General Staff , armed forces July 21 , 2006 1999 ; died in prison , The CPK Political Hierarchy : The Standing Committee of the xx Preface to the Third Edition.
... , 1977- First Vice President , jailed Apr. People's Assem- bly ; Chief of General Staff , armed forces July 21 , 2006 1999 ; died in prison , The CPK Political Hierarchy : The Standing Committee of the xx Preface to the Third Edition.
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... prison , 1976-79 charged with crimes against humanity , 31 July 2007 armed forces deputy commander , Ke Vin ( alias Ke Pauk , number 13 ) , mu- tinied against his commander , Ek Choeun ( code - named Mok , number 7 ) , and defected with ...
... prison , 1976-79 charged with crimes against humanity , 31 July 2007 armed forces deputy commander , Ke Vin ( alias Ke Pauk , number 13 ) , mu- tinied against his commander , Ek Choeun ( code - named Mok , number 7 ) , and defected with ...
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 |
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