THE POL POT REGIME Race, Power, and Genocide in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, 1975-79

Kiernan, Ben

ISBN 10: 0300061137 / ISBN 13: 9780300061130

Edité par Yale University Press, 1996

A propos de cet article

With illustrations , maps, glossary, bibliography, previous owners name on front endpaper, a very good copy in very good dustjacket. ; 240 x 165mm; xiv, 477 pages. N° de réf. du vendeur 22467

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : THE POL POT REGIME Race, Power, and Genocide...

Éditeur : Yale University Press

Date d'édition : 1996

Reliure : Hardcover

Etat : Near Fine

Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine

Edition : First Edition.

A propos de ce titre

Synopsis :

The Khmer Rouge revolution turned Cambodia into 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 - a comprehensive study of the Pol Pot regime - describes the violent origins, social context and course of the revolution, providing an answer to the question of why a group of Cambodian intellectuals imposed genocide on their own country. Ben Kiernan draws on more than 500 interviews with Cambodian refugees, survivors and defectors, as well as on a 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 war was fought against Vietnam. Exploring the nature of the regime that enforced such a revolution, Kiernan shows that its atrocities - the widespread massacres, forced assimilation of minorities, and foreign alliances and wars - can be explained by its ideological preoccupation with racist and totalitarian policies. Kiernan concludes with a description of the resistance movements that sprang up and the destruction of the regime by Vietnamese forces in 1979.

Présentation de l'éditeur:

What was the nature of the regime that turned Cambodia into grisly killing fields and murdered or starved to death 1.7 million of the country's eight million inhabitants? In this account of the Khmer Rouge revolution, Ben Kiernan shows how an ideological preoccupation with racist and totalitarian policies led a group of intellectuals to impose genocide on their own country. This edition includes a new preface recounting the fatal disintegration of the Khmer Rouge army, the death of Pol Pot, the United Nations' foray into the struggle to bring his surviving accomplices to justice, and the damning new evidence they could face.