Pol Pot's CambodiaTwenty-First Century Books, 1 thg 9, 2008 - 160 trang Pol Pot, one of the world's most infamous dictators, rose to power in the 1960s in the Southeast Asian country of Cambodia. In the mid-1900s, Cambodia had been chafing for centuries under Thai, Vietnamese, and French control. As leader of the Khmer Rouge, Cambodia's communist rebel movement, Pol Pot won control of Cambodia in 1975. He intended to establish a farming utopia. Declaring that society needed purification, he set out to extinguish capitalism, non-Cambodian culture, city life, religion, and all foreign influences. But instead of building a strong, just nation, Pol Pot engineered a genocide. During his regime, almost two million Cambodians died from overwork, starvation, disease, and execution. Creating a harsh climate of fear, brutality, misery, and intolerance, Pol Pot's rule drained a once prosperous country of its economic and human resources. Read this book to learn more about the internal workings of one of the world's most devastating dictatorships. |
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Introduction Evacuation Of Phnom Penh | 6 |
Chapter 1 The Making Of A Revolutionary | 10 |
Chapter 2 From Political Work To Armed Struggle | 40 |
Chapter 3 Bright Red Blood Which Covers Towns And Plains | 60 |
Chapter 4 Democratic Kampuchea | 80 |
Chapter 5 Life Under Pol Pot | 106 |
Conclusion The Demise Of Pol Pots Regime | 124 |
Whos Who? | 140 |
Glossary | 148 |
Source Notes | 150 |
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Further Reading And Websites | 155 |
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Back Flap | 161 |
Back Cover | 162 |
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Angkor period April 17 areas arrest Battambang became began Buddhist cadre Cambodia Cambodian Communists Cambodian government Cambodian independence Central Committee CGDK Cham China Chinese class enemies Communism Communist leaders Communist Party Communist revolution countryside Democratic Kampuchea eastern zone election execution farms France Ieng Sary Ieng Thirith joined Khieu Ponnary Khieu Samphan Khmer Rouge Khmer Rouge leaders Khmer Rouge soldiers killed king KPRP KUFNS labor Lon Nol Marxist Circle military monks national assembly nationalists Ngoc Minh Ngoc Thanh Nol's non-Communist Norodom Sihanouk North Vietnam Nuon Chea Party of Kampuchea peasants Phnom Penh Pol Pot Pol Pot Regime policies political Pot’s Pracheachon prime minister purges returned to Cambodia revolutionary rice Saloth Sar Sangkum Sar's Sisowath School society Son Ngoc Thanh South Vietnamese Soviet Union Ta Mok Thai border Thailand thousand tion took troops Tuol Sleng United Viet Minh Vietnamese Vietnamese Communists workers