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

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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 Cambodias 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.