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Children of Cambodia's Killing Fields: Memoirs by Survivors (Southeast Asia Studies)

Yale University Press, 1997

How did the world let this happen?
This is one of the most powerful books I have read. The writing may not be the greatest. After all it is not a novel; it is a composition of the stories of Cambodians that have survived horrendous atrocities. Before we blame the U.S. we must realize that The U.N. and ...
  
  











  



  
Genocide and Resistance in Southeast Asia: Documentation, Denial, and Justice in Cambodia and East Timor
Ben Kiernan

Transaction Publishers, 2007

Two modern cases of genocide and extermination began in Southeast Asia in the same year. Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge regime ruled Cambodia from 1975 to 1979, and Indonesian forces occupied East Timor from 1975 to 1999. This book examines the horrific consequences of Cambodian communist revolution and Indonesian anti-communist counterinsurgency. It also ...
  
  











  



  
The Pol Pot Regime: Race, Power, and Genocide in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, 1975-79
Ben Kiernan

Yale University Press, 2002

The reference work on the khmer rouge
Quite simply the most authoritative work on the pol pot led khmer rouge. If planing a visit to Cambodia Kiernan's book will provide excellent background and explain much of what you see today in rural Cambodia. Further details can be obtained from the website of Sage ...
  
  











  



  
Genocide and Democracy in Cambodia: The Khmer Rouge, the U.N., and the International Community

Yale Univ Southeast Asia Studies, 1993

a spetacular academic achievement
"Genocide and Democracy in Cambodia" is an insightful and illuminating look at the real facts behind the emergence of the Khmer Rouge, their atrocities, their defeat at the hands of the Vietnamese and their subsequent supporters in the international community UNSC). ...
  
  











  



  
The Pol Pot Regime: Race, Power, and Genocide in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, 1975-79, Third Edition
Ben Kiernan

Yale University Press, 2008
  
  











  



  
Blood and Soil: A World History of Genocide and Extermination from Sparta to Darfur
Ben Kiernan

Yale University Press, 2007

Genocidal Energy Sources: Antiquity, Agrarianism, Racism, and/or Expansionism
Ben Kiernan has realized a tour de force in clearly explaining to his readers the four usual ideological features of genocides: antiquity, agrarianism, racism, and expansionism. These ideological factors have motivated, in greater or lesser degrees, all military, ...
  
  











  



  
The Specter of Genocide: Mass Murder in Historical Perspective

Cambridge University Press, 2003

Strong collection of useful essays
This collection of essays has a wide focus and all are useful and clear in their discussions. The comparative essay on Cambodia and Egypt is an interesting approach. The essays are focussed not only on 20th century genocides but also colonial history and its resulting ...
  
  











  



  
How Pol Pot Came to Power: Colonialism, Nationalism, and Communism in Cambodia, 1930-1975; Second Edition
Ben Kiernan

Yale University Press, 2004

Indispensible
This is THE book on the history of Cambodia in that era and the Khmer Rouge. There are very few Western scholars who know the Khmer language and are therefore able to do serious research. Ben Kiernan is one of those few. His book is well documented, an excellent ...
  
  











  



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