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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... regime in 1979 , he too fled with Pol Pot to the Thai border , where he joined Nuon Chea , Ieng Sary , Khieu Thirith , and Deuch . Soon after Pol Pot's death in 1998 , Samphan and Nuon Chea surrendered to the Cambo- dian government ...
... regime in 1979 , he too fled with Pol Pot to the Thai border , where he joined Nuon Chea , Ieng Sary , Khieu Thirith , and Deuch . Soon after Pol Pot's death in 1998 , Samphan and Nuon Chea surrendered to the Cambo- dian government ...
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... regime was already in the public do- main , if not accessible online . So Samphan expected Cambodians to pity him . For all those years in the hills without good food or medicine , when he missed his mother . For the con- stant moving ...
... regime was already in the public do- main , if not accessible online . So Samphan expected Cambodians to pity him . For all those years in the hills without good food or medicine , when he missed his mother . For the con- stant moving ...
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... regime's 1970 mas- sacres when the Mekong River became choked with the bodies of ethnic Viet- 28 The nightmare of a recurrence , Samphan ominously warned the UN in 1992 , " might become a reality . " Khmer Rouge slaughter of Vietnamese ...
... regime's 1970 mas- sacres when the Mekong River became choked with the bodies of ethnic Viet- 28 The nightmare of a recurrence , Samphan ominously warned the UN in 1992 , " might become a reality . " Khmer Rouge slaughter of Vietnamese ...
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... criminal tribunal . Whether their defence testimony will add much to our knowledge of the Khmer Rouge regime remains to be seen . Preface to the Second Edition While the first edition of Preface to the Third Edition xxiii •
... criminal tribunal . Whether their defence testimony will add much to our knowledge of the Khmer Rouge regime remains to be seen . Preface to the Second Edition While the first edition of Preface to the Third Edition xxiii •
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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