Pol Pot

Pol Pot - 1925–98, Cambodian political leader, originally named Saloth Sar. Paris-educated, and a Khmer Communist leader from 1960, he led Khmer Rouge guerrillas against the government of Lon Nol after 1970. In 1975 he proclaimed the Democratic Republic of Kampuchea; he served as its premier (1976–79). The systematic murder of members of various groups, forced labor in the Read More...

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Brother Number One: A Political Biography of Pol Pot
by David P. Chandler. 268 pgs.

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In Cambodia's recent, tragic past, no figure looms larger or more ominously than that of Pol Pot. Yet information about his life and career has been largely inaccessible. As secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Kampuchea (CPK) beginning in 1962 and as prime minister of Democratic Kampuchea (DK), he was widely blamed for trying to destroy Cambodian society. By implementing policies whose effects were genocidal, he oversaw the deaths of more than one million of his nation's people.
In this, the only book-length study of the man, historian David P. Chandler throws light on the shadowy figure of Pol Pot. Basing his study on interviews and on a wide range of sources in English, Cambodian, and French, the author illuminates the ideas and behavior of this enigmatic man and his entourage against the background of post -- World War II events, providing a key to understanding this horrific, pivotal period of Cambodian history. In this revised edition, new material brings the biography up to date through recent events in Cambodia, including Pol Pot's death in April 1998.

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Illustrations

Preface to the Second Edition

Acknowledgments

Chapter One: Introduction

Chapter Two: Original Khmer, 1928-1949

Chapter Three: Becoming a Communist, 1949-1953

Chapter Four: Multiple Identities, 1953-1963

Chapter Five: Red Khmer, 1963-1970

Chapter Six: Coming to Power, 1970-1976

Chapter Seven: Prairie Fire, 1976-1977

Chapter Eight: Coming Apart, 1977-1979

Chapter Nine: Grandfather 87, 1979-1998

Chronology

Appendix 1: Non Suon's Biography of Pol Pot

Appendix 2: Khmer Personnel at "Office 100," 1963-1966

Notes

Bibliographic Essay

Index
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Voices from S-21: Terror and History in Pol Pot's Secret Prison
by David Chandler. 238 pgs.

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"The Khmer Rouge terror constitutes one of the most horrific instances of mass murder in the twentieth century, and Chandler has immersed himself in a unique and largely unexplored collection of primary sources from hell. This will be a very important and enduring work. . . . Moreover, no scholar is better situated to undertake this project than David Chandler."--Craig Etcheson, Director, Cambodian Genocide Project, Yale University
"A truly impressive book that clearly transcends the realm of Cambodian and South Asian studies. Not only has Chandler worked through a massive amount of material, he has also situated his analysis within a knowledge of Khmer history that is without equal."--Charles Keyes, University of Washington

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Preface

Chapter One: Discovering S–21

Chapter Two: S–21: a Total Institution

Chapter Three: Choosing the Enemies

Chapter Four: Framing the Questions

Chapter Five: Forcing the Answers

Chapter Six: Explaining S–21

Appendix: Siet Chhe's Denial of Incest

Notes

Bibliography

Index
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Cambodia, Pol Pot, and the United States: The Faustian Pact
by Michael Haas. 170 pgs.

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This provocative analysis of U.S. policy toward Cambodia illuminates issues that remain especially pertinent in the aftermath of the Cold War. Haas examines U.S. failures in Cambodia and traces them to a combination of an idealistic desire to remake the world in the American democratic image, a belief in U.S. omnipotence, and the realpolitik tradition of using power to advance U.S. interests whenever they seem to be threatened. Formulating a model of international relations based on democratic principles, Haas urges reflection on the lessons of Cambodia as policies are developed for the 1990s.

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Creating the Khmer Rouge

1 The Us Role in Elevating Pol Pot To Power

NOTES

2 The Mythology of Us Policy Toward Cambodia

II Sustaining the Khmer Rouge

3 Scenarios and Policies For Cambodia in the 1980s

4 The Us Role in Preserving Pol Pot

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III Marginalizing the Khmer Rouge

5 Scenarios and Policies For Cambodia in the 1990s

6 A Campaign to Oppose The Return of the Khmer Rouge

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IV Beyond Cambodias

7 Toward a New Us Foreign Policy

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Appendix A OPTIONS ANALYSIS

Appendix B LIST OF INTERVIEWEES AND RELATED SOURCES

References

Index

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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Cambodia, 1975-1982 (Chap. 4 "Kampuchea: From Democratic to People's Republic")
by Michael Vickery. 362 pgs.

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Preface and Acknowledgements

Chapter 1 the Gentle Land

Chapter 2 Problems of Sources and Evidence

Chapter 3 the Zero Years

Chapter 4 Kampuchea: from Democratic to People's Republic

Postscript: 1983

Bibliography

Index
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Orphans of Genocide: The Cham Muslims of Kampuchea under Pol Pot, in Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars
by Ben Kiernan. 32 pgs.

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Propaganda, Politics, and Violence in Cambodia: Democratic Transition under United Nations Peace-Keeping (Chap. 2 "Imaging the Other in Cambodian Nationalist Discourse before and during the UNTAC Period")
by Steve Heder, Judy Ledgerwood. 280 pgs.

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The Contributors

Foreword

Preface

A Note on Transliteration: Franco-Khmer Transcription

Note on Sources

Cambodia

1: Politics of VIolence: An Introduction

Notes

2: Imaging the Other in Cambodian Nationalist Discourse Before and During the Untac Period

Notes

3: The Resumption of Armed Struggle by the Party of Democratic Kampuchea: Evidence from National Army of Democratic Kampuchea "Self-Demobilizers"

Notes

4: Patterns of Cpp Political Repression and VIolence During the Untac Period

Conclusion

Notes

5: Persecution of Cambodia's Ethnic VIetnamese Communities During and Since the Untac Period

Conclusion

6: The Nature and Causes of Human Rights VIolations in Battambang Province

Notes

7: The Politics of Getting the Vote in Cambodia

Notes

8: Cambodian News Media in the Untac Period and After

Conclusions

Notes

Appendix 1 Agreement on A Comprehensive Political Settlement of the Cambodia Conflict

Appendix 2 Chronology

Index
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Genocide: Conceptual and Historical Dimensions (" The Cambodian Genocide: Issues and Responses" begins on p. 191)
by George J. Andreopoulos. 272 pgs.

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Preface

Introduction: The Calculus of Genocide

Part I: The Conceptual Dimensions of Genocide

Theoretical Issues Relating to Genocide: Uses and Abuses

Redefining Genocide

Toward a Generic Definition of Genocide

Genocide, Terror, Life Integrity, and War Crimes: The Case for Discrimination

Part II: The Reality of Genocide

Etiology and Sequelae of the Armenian Genocide

Genocide in Kurdistan?: The Suppression of the Dersim Rebellion in Turkey (1937-38) and the Chemical War against the Iraqi Kurds (1988)

East Timor: A Case of Cultural Genocide?

The Cambodian Genocide: Issues and Responses

Appendix 1: Text of the 1948 Genocide Convention

Appendix 2: Chronologies of the Case Studies

Selected Bibliography

Contributors

Index
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Genocide by Proxy: Cambodian Pawn on a Superpower Chessboard (Chap. 1 "From the Khmer Empire to Four Warring Factions," Chap. 3 "Cambodia," and Chap. 10 "International Conference on Kampuchea")
by Michael Haas. 388 pgs.

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This is an account of a country at war and of a people consigned to the role of pawn in world politics. Haas provides detailed scholarly reassessment of the causes of the Cambodian tragedy--how Cambodia became an arena for superpower conflict. The volume vindicates Vietnam's role in the Cambodian conflict and reveals the treachery of U.S. foreign policy toward Cambodia. Haas' analysis entails a study in comparative foreign policies, an exercise that has theoretical merit for political scientists in search of paradigms of political behavior. Much of the information in the book is based on Haas' recent interviews with 100 key international figures and on primary documents.

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Preface

Part I: The Gameboard

1: FROM THE KHMER EMPIRE TO FOUR WARRING FACTIONS

Part II: OPENING GAME

2: PROXY WAR

3: CAMBODIA

4: VIETNAM

5: CHINA

6: THE SUPERPOWERS

7: ASEAN

8: OTHER ALIGNED COUNTRIES

9: THE NONALIGNED MOVEMENT AND THE UNITED NATIONS

10: International Conference on Kampuchea

Part III: MIDDLE GAME

11: PROXY PEACE

12: CAMBODIA

13: VIETNAM

14: China

15: THE SUPERPOWERS CHANGING SOVIET POLICYMAKING

16: ASEAN

17: OTHER ALIGNED COUNTRIES

18: The Nonaligned Movement and the United Nations

19: PARIS CONFERENCE ON CAMBODIA

Part IV: END GAME

20: DEPROXIFICATION

21: Cambodia

22: VIETNAM

23: China

24: THE SUPERPOWERS

25: ASEAN

26: OTHER ALIGNED COUNTRIES

27: THE NONALIGNED MOVEMENT AND THE UNITED NATIONS

28: Tokyo Peace Conference and After

Part V: BEYOND CHESSGAMES

29: THE "ASIAN WAY" TO WORLD PLURALISM

APPENDIXES

ACRONYMS

REFERENCES

INDEX

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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A Century of Genocide: Critical Essays and Eyewitness Accounts (Chap. 11 "The Cambodian Genocide, 1975-1979")
by Israel W. Charny, William S. Parsons, Samuel Totten. 508 pgs.

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The Rwandan government forces, as well as Cambodia's Khmer Rouge and German, Bosnian and U.S. governments, have all been guilty of the destruction of their indigenous cultures. This book analyses the major atrocities of our times, including recent cases of genocide in Yugoslavia and Iraq.

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Acknowledgments

Map Credits

Introduction

Chapter 1: Genocide of the Hereros

Chapter 2: The Armenian Genocide

Chapter 3: Soviet Man-Made Famine in Ukraine

Chapter 4: Holocaust: the Genocide of the Jews

Chapter 5: Holocaust: the Gypsies

Chapter 6: Holocaust: the Genocide of Disabled Peoples

Chapter 7: The Indonesian Massacres

Chapter 8: Genocide in East Timor

Chapter 9: Genocide in Bangladesh

Chapter 10: The Burundi Genocide

Chapter 11: The Cambodian Genocide-1975-1979

Chapter 12: The Anfal Operations in Iraqi Kurdistan

Chapter 13: The Rwanda Genocide

Chapter 14: Genocide in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Chapter 15: Genocide in Kosovo?

Chapter 16: Out of That Darkness: Responding to Genocide in the 21st Century

Chapter 17: The Intervention and Prevention of Genocide: Where There is the Political Will, There is a Way

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The Cambodian Crisis, 1990-1992: The UN Plan, the Khmer Rouge, and The State of Cambodia, in Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars
by Ben Kiernan. 22 pgs.

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A History of Cambodia (Chap. 12 "Revolution in Cambodia")
by David Chandler. 296 pgs.

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This clear and concise volume provides a timely overview of Cambodia, a small but increasingly visible Southeast Asian nation. Hailed by the Journal of Asian Studies as an "original contribution, superior to any other existing work, " the third edition of this acclaimed text has been completely revised and updated to include all-new material examining the death of Pol Pot and the region's continuing rivalry for political power. In addition, Chandler examines the unstable but influential career of Prince Norodom Sihanouk, the bloody reign of Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge, and the relative calm that followed the Vietnamese invasion of 1979. This comprehensive general description and analysis of Cambodia will illuminate -- for specialists and general readers alike -- the history and contemporary politics of a country long misunderstood.

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Illustrations

Preface

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: The Beginnings of Cambodian History

Chapter 3: Kingship and Society at Angkor

Chapter 4: Jayavarman VII and the Crisis of the Thirteenth Century

Chapter 5: Cambodia after Angkor

Chapter 6: State, Society, and Foreign Relations, 1794-1848

Chapter 7: The Crisis of the Nineteenth Century

Chapter 8: The Early Stages of the French Protectorate

Chapter 9: Cambodia's Response to France, 1916-1945

Chapter 10: Gaining Independence

Chapter 11: From Independence to Civil War

Chapter 12: Revolution in Cambodia

Chapter 13: Cambodia since 1979

Notes

Bibliographic Essay

Index
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Cambodia: A Heritage of Violence, in World Policy Journal
by Sheri Prasso. 7 pgs.

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New Light on the Origins of the Vietnam-Kampuchea Conflict, in Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars
by Ben Kiernan. 5 pgs.

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In Search of Southeast Asia: A Modern History (Chap. 34 "Cambodia and Laos")
by David Joel Steinberg. 592 pgs.

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In Search of Southeast Asia explores the creative process by which Southeast Asians have been adapting their cultures to a world in change. Influences such as climate and ecology, science and technology are linked to the economic, social, political, and cultural dimensions of Southeast Asia's modern transformation.

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Preface

Preface to the Second Edition

Introduction

Part One: The Eighteenth-Century World

1: The Peasant World

2: Non-State Peoples

3: Authority and Village Society

4: Provincial Powers

5: Religious Life and Leadership

6: Traders and Markets

7: The Buddhist Kings

8: The Vietnamese Emperors

9: The Malay Sultans

10: The Javanese Kings

11: The Spanish Governors

Part Two: New Challenges to Old Authority

13: Siam, 1767-1868

14: Cambodia, 1779-1863

15: Vietnam, 1802-1867

16: The Malay Peninsula to 1874

17: The Archipelago, 1750-1870

18: Java, 1757-1875

19: The Philippines, 1762-1872

Part Three: Frameworks for Nations

20: The Making of New States

21: Bureaucratic and Economic Frameworks

22: Economic Transformation, 1870-1940

Part Four: Social Change and the Emergence of Nationalism

23: Preludes

24: Channels of Change

25: The Philippines

26: Burma

27: Indonesia

28: Vietnam

29: Siam

30: Malaya

31: Laos and Cambodia

Part Five: Southeast Asian Nations in a New World Order

32: War, Independence, and Political Transition

33: Vietnam

34: Cambodia and Laos

35: The Kingdom of Thailand

36: The Union of Burma

37: Malaysia, Singapore, and Brunei

38: The Republic of Indonesia

39: The Republic of the Philippines

40: Transforming Southeast Asia

Appendix

Notes

Glossary

Bibliography

Index

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