The Pol Pot Regime
Ben Kiernan · 1996
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The Khmer Rouge revolution turned Cambodia into grisly killing fields, as the Pol Pot regime murdered or starved to death a million and a half of Cambodia's eight million inhabitants. This book -- the first comprehensive study of the Pol Pot regime -- describes the violent origins, social context, and course of the revolution, providing a new answer to the question of why a group of Cambodian intellectuals imposed genocide on their own country. Ben Kiernan draws on more than five hundred interviews with Cambodian refugees, survivors, and defectors, as well as on a rich collection of previously unexplored archival material from the Pol Pot regime (including Pol Pot's secret speeches). - Back cover.
First sentence: Sixty-eight long-haired soldiers trudged across the border from southern Vietnam.
Book details
- Year
- 1996
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Editions
- 5
- Pages
- 512
- ISBN
- 9780300096491
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