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Ben Kiernan, in “The Cambodian Genocide, 1975-1979”, provides a detailed account of the Pol Pot regime’s systematic attempt to exterminate ethnic, religious, and cultural minorities from Cambodia. The essay is divided into three sections. The first is a facts-based retelling of the Khmer Rouge’s genocidal campaign in the late 1970s ...
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Race, Power, and Genocide in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge,...
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XML. This edition of Ben Kiernan's definitive account of the Cambodian revolution and genocide includes a new preface that takes the story up to 2008 and the UN...
- BEN KIERNAN
Kiernan visited Cambodia in his early twenties, but left before the Khmer Rouge expelled all foreigners in 1975. Though he initially doubted the reported scale of genocide then being perpetrated in Democratic Kampuchea , he changed his mind in 1978 [1] [2] [3] after beginning a series of interviews with several hundred refugees from Cambodia.
Jul 26, 2022 · The Pol Pot regime : race, power, and genocide in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, 1975-79 : Kiernan, Ben : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive.
Ben Kiernan estimates that 1.671 million to 1.871 million Cambodians died as a result of Khmer Rouge policy, or between 21% and 24% of Cambodia's 1975 population.
- 17 April 1975 – 7 January 1979 (3 years, 8 months and 20 days)
- Democratic Kampuchea
- 1.5 to 2 million
- Khmer Rouge
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Oct 1, 2008 · History. Regional and National History. This edition of Ben Kiernan’s definitive account of the Cambodian revolution and genocide includes a new preface that takes the story up to 2008 and the UN-sponsored Khmer Rouge tribunal. Deeply detailed, meticulously reported. . . . Important [and] valuable.”
