The
Pol Pot Regime: Race, Power,
and Genocide in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge,
1975-79
by Ben Kiernan
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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 riveting
book, the first definitive account of the Khmer
Rouge revolution, a world renowned authority
on Cambodia 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.
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Pol Pot, the paramount leader of Democratic
Kampuchea, trumps Hitler, Stalin, and
Mao as the most bloodthirsty ruler of
modern history. In fewer than four years,
Pol Pot's regime caused the death of 1.7
million people in Cambodia, one-fifth
of the population. Using hundreds of interviews
with survivors, Kiernan, the leading authority
on modern Cambodia, meticulously examines
Pol Pot's killing machine and clears up
many misconceptions found in earlier studies.
In chilling detail, he shows that Pol
Pot, obsessed with fantasies of ethnic
purity and national grandeur, tried to
exterminate the Cham, Vietnamese, Thai,
and Lao minorities in his country. Finally,
internal revolt supported by Vietnam caused
the regime's collapse. An important book
for students of genocide as well as scholars
of Southeast Asia.-Steven I. Levine, Boulder
Run Research, Hillsborough, N.C.
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