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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... village society was decentralized , its economy unintegrated , dominated by subsistence rice cultivation . Compared to Vietnam's , its villagers participated much less in village - organized activities . They were often described as ...
... village society was decentralized , its economy unintegrated , dominated by subsistence rice cultivation . Compared to Vietnam's , its villagers participated much less in village - organized activities . They were often described as ...
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... village 59 Not far away , bombs fell on O Reang Au market for the first time in 1972 , killing twenty people , and twice more in 1973 , killing another twenty - five people , including two Buddhist monks.60 When bombs hit Boeng village ...
... village 59 Not far away , bombs fell on O Reang Au market for the first time in 1972 , killing twenty people , and twice more in 1973 , killing another twenty - five people , including two Buddhist monks.60 When bombs hit Boeng village ...
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... village counted over twenty dead . An inhabitant told me : " Many monasteries were destroyed by bombs . People in our village were furious with the Americans ; they did not know why the Americans had bombed them . Seventy people from ...
... village counted over twenty dead . An inhabitant told me : " Many monasteries were destroyed by bombs . People in our village were furious with the Americans ; they did not know why the Americans had bombed them . Seventy people from ...
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... village in the southwest , eighty people died when B - 52s hit the village and its pagoda.68 Nearby Wat Angrun village was annihilated ; a single family survived . Peasants claimed that 120 houses were destroyed in the air raid . This ...
... village in the southwest , eighty people died when B - 52s hit the village and its pagoda.68 Nearby Wat Angrun village was annihilated ; a single family survived . Peasants claimed that 120 houses were destroyed in the air raid . This ...
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... village , more than one hundred people were killed and wounded . " The people were very angry at the imperialists , " he adds . Soon afterwards the Cpk's political line hardened , and a number of cadres , including Lon himself , were ...
... village , more than one hundred people were killed and wounded . " The people were very angry at the imperialists , " he adds . Soon afterwards the Cpk's political line hardened , and a number of cadres , including Lon himself , were ...
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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