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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... province , on 19 May 1925. His father , Phen Saloth , was a rich Khmer peasant owning twelve hectares of farmland . Sar's sister was a royal consort in the capital , Phnom Penh ; his brother Suong was a palace protocol officer . At age ...
... province , on 19 May 1925. His father , Phen Saloth , was a rich Khmer peasant owning twelve hectares of farmland . Sar's sister was a royal consort in the capital , Phnom Penh ; his brother Suong was a palace protocol officer . At age ...
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... province.4 Other Khmer Rouge leaders soon jockeyed for similar treat- ment from Phnom Penh . In June 1997 , fearing further defections and possi- ble betrayal , Pol Pot murdered Son Sen , another deputy prime minister of his Democratic ...
... province.4 Other Khmer Rouge leaders soon jockeyed for similar treat- ment from Phnom Penh . In June 1997 , fearing further defections and possi- ble betrayal , Pol Pot murdered Son Sen , another deputy prime minister of his Democratic ...
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... province for a response from Samphan , DK officials banned Islarn , closed the local mosque , and dispersed the Cham pop- ulation as far as the northwest provinces . Some Muslims were forced to eat pork , on pain of death . On 11 April ...
... province for a response from Samphan , DK officials banned Islarn , closed the local mosque , and dispersed the Cham pop- ulation as far as the northwest provinces . Some Muslims were forced to eat pork , on pain of death . On 11 April ...
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... Province , 17 January 1986. Chem was then probably the only sur- viving witness to the 1942 demonstration ; he is the only one to have provided an estimate of the size of the crowd . He studied at the Higher Pali School in Wat Unnalom ...
... Province , 17 January 1986. Chem was then probably the only sur- viving witness to the 1942 demonstration ; he is the only one to have provided an estimate of the size of the crowd . He studied at the Higher Pali School in Wat Unnalom ...
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... province had taken the lives of two hundred people . When another raid killed seven people nearby , a local peasant recalls , " some people ran away . . . others joined the revolution . " 56 In 1971 , the town of Angkor Borei in ...
... province had taken the lives of two hundred people . When another raid killed seven people nearby , a local peasant recalls , " some people ran away . . . others joined the revolution . " 56 In 1971 , the town of Angkor Borei in ...
Contents
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CHAPTER EIGHT Power Politics 197677 | 313 |
CHAPTER ELEVEN The End of the Pol Pot Regime | 440 |
Select Bibliography | 467 |
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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 |
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