The Pol Pot Regime race, power and genocide in Cambodia under the Khmer Rough,1975-79
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...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New Haven
Yale University Press
1999
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | xiii, 477 p., [20] p. of plates ill., maps 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 0300070527 (paper) 0300061137 (cloth) |