The Pol Pot Regime by Ben Kiernan

The Pol Pot Regime by Ben Kiernan

What was the nature of the regime that turned Cambodia into grisly killing fields and murdered or starved to death 1.7 million of the country's eight million inhabitants? In this account of the Khmer Rouge revolution, Ben Kiernan shows how an ideological preoccupation with racist and totalitarian policies led a group of intellectuals to impose genocide on their own country. This edition includes a new preface recounting the fatal disintegration of the Khmer Rouge army, the death of Pol Pot, the United Nations' foray into the struggle to bring his surviving accomplices to justice, and the damning new evidence they could face.

Kiernan, Ben: -

Ben Kiernan is the A. Whitney Griswold Professor of History, professor of international and area studies, and director of the Genocide Studies Program at Yale University (www.yale.edu/gsp). He served as founding director of Yale's Cambodian Genocide Program (1994-99) and convenor of the Yale East Timor Project (2000-02). He is the author of How Pol Pot Came to Power, The Pol Pot Regime, and Blood and Soil: A World History of Genocide and Exterminatiion from Sparta to Darfur.

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ISBN 13	9780300096491
ISBN 10	0300096496
Title	The Pol Pot Regime
Author	Ben Kiernan
Series	Yale Nota Bene
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Yale University Press
Year published	2002-07-11
Number of pages	512
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