The Pol Pot Regime

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.

המשפט הראשון: Sixty-eight long-haired soldiers trudged across the border from southern Vietnam.

שנה

1996

שפה

English

הוצאה

Yale University Press

מהדורות

5

עמודים

512

ISBN

9780300096491

מקור הנתונים: Wikidata