Genocide in Cambodia
Subtitle: Documents from the Trial from of Pol Pot and Ieng Sary (Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights)
Contributors: Howard J. De Nike (Editor); John B. Quigley (Editor); Kenneth J. Robinson (Editor); Cambodia Tribunal Populaire Revolutionnaire (Corporate Author); Helen Jarvis (Editor); Nereida Cross (Editor)
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: April 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 559
ISBN-13: 9780812235395
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history; Civil rights & citizenship; Human rights; Pol Pot; History & Theory - General; Political And Civil Rights; Political Freedom & Security - Human Rights; Indo-China - History; History: World; History; History - General History; ASIA; South East Asia; Political Freedom & Security - Civil Rights; Asia - General; Asia - Southeast Asia; Trials (Genocide); Ieng Sary; Cambodia; Trials, litigation, etc
First sentence: To set up a People's Revolutionary Tribunal at Phnom Penh to try the acts of genocide committed by the Pol Pot-Ieng Sary clique, namely, planned massacres of groups of innocent people; expulsion of inhabitants of cities and villages in order to concentrate them and force them to do hard labor in conditions leading to their physical and mental destruction; wiping out religion; destroying political, cultural and social structures and family and social relations.