Title: The Pol Pot Regime
First published: 1996
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. 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). - Back cover.
Subjects: Atrocities, Communism, Genocide, History, Parti communiste du Kampuchea, Political atrocities, Politics and government, Rote Khmer, Communisme, Massamoorden, Revoluties, Kommunismus, Politique et gouvernement, Rode Khmer, Politik, Volkermord, Atrocites politiques, Atrocités politiques, Génocide, Völkermord, Cambodia, politics and government, Communism, asia, Pol pot, 1925-1998, Cambodia, history, Khmer rouge
Places: Cambodia
Time periods: 1975-1979