The Pol Pot Regime : Race, Power, and Genocide in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, 1975-79 /
BEN KIERMAN
- xiii, 477 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm
Includes index
Bibliography : pages 467-469
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