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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New Haven
Yale University Press
1999
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Table of Contents:
- The making of the 1975 Khmer Rouge victory
- Cleansing the cities: the quest for total power
- Cleansing the countryside: race, power, and the party, 1973-75
- Cleansing the frontiers: neighbors, friends, and enemies, 1975-76
- An indentured agrarian state, 1975-77
- The base areas
- The southwest and the east
- An indentured agrarian state, 1975-77
- Peasants and deportees in the northwest
- Ethnic cleansing: The CPK and Cambodia's minorities, 1975-77
- Power politics, 1976-77
- Foreign relations, 1977-78: Warfare, weapons, and wildlife
- "Thunder without rain": race and power in Cambodia, 1978
- The end of the Pol Pot regime.