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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... workers , later to become victims of Cpk genocide . At age twenty - three , still claiming to be three years younger , Sar received a French government scholarship to study in Paris . There , inspired by anti- colonial nationalism , he ...
... workers , later to become victims of Cpk genocide . At age twenty - three , still claiming to be three years younger , Sar received a French government scholarship to study in Paris . There , inspired by anti- colonial nationalism , he ...
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... Workers ' Party of Kampuchea , and a decade later , they rewrote its founding narrative by mov- ing the official date of the Party's 1951 " First Congress " forward to 1960 , when Saloth Sar first joined the Central Committee . The ...
... Workers ' Party of Kampuchea , and a decade later , they rewrote its founding narrative by mov- ing the official date of the Party's 1951 " First Congress " forward to 1960 , when Saloth Sar first joined the Central Committee . The ...
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... United States Agency for International Development " Viet Cong " ( U.S. usage ) Vietnam Voice of Democratic Kampuchea Vietnam Workers ' Party ( 1951-76 ) Glossary Angkar Angkar Loeu chalat damban hakkem Khmer Krahom Khmer Xxxviii Acronyms •
... United States Agency for International Development " Viet Cong " ( U.S. usage ) Vietnam Voice of Democratic Kampuchea Vietnam Workers ' Party ( 1951-76 ) Glossary Angkar Angkar Loeu chalat damban hakkem Khmer Krahom Khmer Xxxviii Acronyms •
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... workers Region ( DK usage ) Islamic community leader " Red Khmers " ( Khmer Rouge ) " Lower Khmers , ” ethnic Cambodians from southern Vietnam " Upper Khmers , ” ethnic minority hill peoples of Cambodia " Khmer Liberation ” subdistrict ...
... workers Region ( DK usage ) Islamic community leader " Red Khmers " ( Khmer Rouge ) " Lower Khmers , ” ethnic Cambodians from southern Vietnam " Upper Khmers , ” ethnic minority hill peoples of Cambodia " Khmer Liberation ” subdistrict ...
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... workers , dressed all in black , labored in the sun , apparently digging earthworks for irrigation . Unbeknown to the newcomers , they were deportees from the now - empty city of Phnom Penh , mute testimony to the nature of the ...
... workers , dressed all in black , labored in the sun , apparently digging earthworks for irrigation . Unbeknown to the newcomers , they were deportees from the now - empty city of Phnom Penh , mute testimony to the nature of the ...
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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