TY - BOOK AU - Kiernan,Ben TI - The Pol Pot Regime: Race, Power, and Genocide in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, SN - 9747100436 U1 - 959.6042 23 PY - 1996/// CY - New Haven : PB - Yale University Press KW - Communism KW - Cambodia KW - Atrocities KW - Politics and government KW - 1975-1979 N1 - Includes index; Bibliography : pages 467-469 N2 - 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 ER -