pol pot

Examines the events surrounding the ethnic cleansing that claimed close to two million Cambodians between 1975 and 1979. Includes a timeline, a glossary, resources for further information, a map, and color photographs.

A biography of the prime minister of Cambodia.

Chronicles the life of Cambodian dictator Pol Pot, describing his first exposure to Communist doctrine, his years as a teacher and a revolutionary, the Khmer Rouge's overthrow of the Cambodian government, his paranoia, and his killing of thousands in the name of the revolution.

An eyewitness account of Pol Pot's regime in Cambodia ranging from 1975 to 1979.

Chronicles the life of Pol Pot, focusing on the years he spent as ruler of Cambodia and describing his efforts to exterminate any Cambodians who held onto old beliefs and ideas that went against Pol Pot's vision of an egalitarian utopia.

The end of the Vietman War saw the rise of the Khmer Rouge in 1975 which caused a closing of the Cambodian border and a systematic reorganization of Cambodian society. Everyone was sent from the towns and cities to the countryside where they were forced to labor endlessly in the fields and the intelligentsia were brutally exterminated. Torture, terror, and death became routine. Almost two million people ( a quarter of the population) were killed.

Nobel Prize winning reporter Joel Brinkley illuminates the country, its people, and the deep historical roots of its modern-day behavior.

Huon Chon is the top Khmer Rouge leader still living. Interviews with him follow his journey as a dedicated freedom fighter who became a killer accused of crimes against humanity. Chea was Pol Pot's top lieutenant and is now in prison, facing prosecution in a United Nations-Cambodian tribunal for his actions during the Khmer Rouge rule, when more than two million Cambodians died in the Killing Fields.

An inside look at Cambodia under the dictatorship of Pol Pot that reviews his rise to power, the fall of his regime, and other related topics.