The Pol Pot regime : race, power, and genocide in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, 1975 - 79 / Ben Kiernan.
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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| Hauptverfasser: | Kiernan, Ben |
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| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Veröffentlicht: | New Haven [u.a.] : Yale Univ. Press, 1996. |
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| Zusammenfassung: | 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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| Beschreibung: | XIII, 477 S. : Ill., Kt |
| ISBN: | 0300061137 0300070527 |
