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Annotation 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 & mdash;the first comprehensive study of the Pol Pot regime & mdash;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. Ben Kiernan draws on more than five hundred interviews with Cambodian refugees, survivors, and defectors, as well as on a rich collection of previously unexplored archival material from the Pol Pot regime (including Pol Pot's secret speeches). He recounts how in the first few days after Cambodia became Democratic Kampuchea in 1975, authorities evacuated all cities, closed hospitals, schools, monasteries, and factories, and abolished the use of money. For nearly four years, the country was a prison-camp state, the countryside was "cleansed" of minorities, and a savage war was fought against Vietnam. Exploring the nature of the regime that enforced such a revolution, Kiernan shows that its atrocities & mdash;the widesprea

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Author

Ben Kiernan; NetLibrary, Inc

Publisher

Yale University Press

Published

1998

Language

EN

ISBN

9780300070521

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Political Science, Government & Politics

Rating

3.54 / 5 (247 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14