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 xvi
... troop ' were eastern- ers , " stressing that witnesses had termed them " Sihanouk troops . " But Samphan asserts ( p . 59 ) : " And this researcher says that ' the Sihanouk troops were people who came from the Eastern Zone . ' " His ...
... troop ' were eastern- ers , " stressing that witnesses had termed them " Sihanouk troops . " But Samphan asserts ( p . 59 ) : " And this researcher says that ' the Sihanouk troops were people who came from the Eastern Zone . ' " His ...
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... troops back from their raids on the Vietnamese border . That racialized emotion is certainly genuine . As late as 1992 , Samphan threatened more ethnic violence , recalling the Lon Nol regime's 1970 mas- sacres when the Mekong River ...
... troops back from their raids on the Vietnamese border . That racialized emotion is certainly genuine . As late as 1992 , Samphan threatened more ethnic violence , recalling the Lon Nol regime's 1970 mas- sacres when the Mekong River ...
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... troops were loaded onto seven small Daihatsu trucks . They drove a short distance to a nearby rice field . The first truck pulled up , and as the long - haired soldiers disembarked from the rear , a waiting Khmer Rouge squad quickly ...
... troops were loaded onto seven small Daihatsu trucks . They drove a short distance to a nearby rice field . The first truck pulled up , and as the long - haired soldiers disembarked from the rear , a waiting Khmer Rouge squad quickly ...
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... troops in the sanctuaries , an increase that he said was partly motivated by " the cleaning - up operation " of the U.S. - Saigon forces . He added ominously , " In this period , nothing suggests that these foreign units will soon leave ...
... troops in the sanctuaries , an increase that he said was partly motivated by " the cleaning - up operation " of the U.S. - Saigon forces . He added ominously , " In this period , nothing suggests that these foreign units will soon leave ...
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... troops took the country's second largest city , Bat- tambang , they headed straight for the airport . Finding two T - 28s , they tore the planes apart with their bare hands , according to a witness . " They would have eaten them if they ...
... troops took the country's second largest city , Bat- tambang , they headed straight for the airport . Finding two T - 28s , they tore the planes apart with their bare hands , according to a witness . " They would have eaten them if they ...
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
Angkar April arrested arrived August Author's interview Bangkok Post base Battambang border Boua Brother Cambodia Center Chandler Chhouk chief China Chinese commander communist CPK secretary December Democratic Kampuchea deputy Deuch district document Eastern Zone enemy ethnic evacuated executed families forces former Genocide Hanoi Heder Heng Samrin Hou Yuon hundred Ieng Sary January July Kampot Kampuchea Krom Khieu Samphan Khmer Krom Khmer Rouge Kiernan killed Kirivong Koh Kong Kompong Cham leaders Lon Nol March Mekong military months Northern Zone Northwest November Nuon Chea October officials party peasants Phim Phnom Penh Phnom Penh Radio Pol Pot Pol Pot Plans political population Pot's Preah Prey Veng prison province Pursat recalls refugees regime Region 25 reported revolution rice Santebal says September 1980 Sihanouk soldiers Southwest Zone subdistrict Svay Takeo Thai Thailand thousand Thuon told tons troops Tuol Sleng Vickery Vietnam Vietnamese village Vorn Vet workers