The Pol Pot regime
Subtitle: race, power, and genocide in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, 1975-79
By: Ben Kiernan.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 477
Subjects: Parti communiste du Kampuchea; Communism -- Cambodia; Political atrocities -- Cambodia; Genocide -- Cambodia; Cambodia -- Politics and government -- 1975-1979
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 467-469) and index.