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The Khmer Rouge's genocidal reign in Cambodia
This fascinating book offers an overview of this tiny Asian country's history, framing the events that led up to this tragic genocide.
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The Emergence of Global Maoism
The Emergence of Global Maoism
examines the spread of Mao Zedong's writings, ideology, and
institutions when they traveled outside of China. Matthew
Galway links Chinese Communist Party efforts to globalize Maoism to
the dialectical engagement of exported Maoism by Cambodian Maoist
intellectuals.
How do ideas manifest outside of their place of origin? Galway
analyzes how universal ideological systems became localized, both
in Mao's indigenization of Marxism-Leninism and in the Communist
Party of Kampuchea's indigenization of Maoism into its own
revolutionary ideology. By examining the intellectual journeys of
CPK leaders who, during their studies in Paris in the 1950s, became
progressive activist-intellectuals and full-fledged Communists, he
shows that they responded to political and socioeconomic crises by
speaking back to Maoism-adapting it through practice, without
abandoning its universality. Among Mao's greatest achievements, the
Sinification of Marxism enabled the CCP to canonize Mao's thought
and export it to a progressive audience of international
intellectuals. These intellectuals would come to embrace the
ideology as they set a course for social change.
The Emergence of Global Maoism illuminates the process
through which China moved its goal from class revolution to a
larger anticolonial project that sought to cast out European and
American imperialism from Asia.
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Obedience and Evil: From Milgram and Kampuchea to Normal Organizations
Obedience: a simple term. Stanley Milgram, the famous experimental social psychologist, shocked the world with theory about it. Another man, Pol Pot, the infamous leader of the Khmer Rouge, showed how far the desire for obedience could go in human societies. Milgram conducted his experiments in the controlled environment of the US psychology laboratory of the 1960s. Pol Pot experimented with Utopia in the totalitarian Kampuchea of the 1970s. In this article, we discuss the process through which the Khmer Rouge regime created an army of unquestioningly obedient soldiers — including child soldiers. Based on these two cases, we advance a framework on how obedience can be grown or countered.
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Cambodia's curse : the modern history of a troubled land
Nobel Prize winning reporter Joel Brinkley illuminates the country, its people, and the deep historical roots of its modern-day behavior.
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Cambodia's curse : the modern history of a troubled land
A generation after the Khmer Rouge, Cambodia shows every sign of having overcome its history--the streets of Phnom Penh are paved; skyscrapers dot the skyline. But under this façade lies a country still haunted by its years of terror. Joel Brinkley won a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting in Cambodia on the fall of the Khmer Rouge regime that killed one quarter of the nation's population during its years in power. In 1992, the world came together to help pull the small nation out of the mire. Cambodia became a United Nations protectorate--the first and only time the UN tried something so ambitious. What did the new, democratically-elected government do with this unprecedented gift? In 2008 and 2009, Brinkley returned to Cambodia to find out. He discovered a population in the grip of a venal government. He learned that one-third to one-half of Cambodians who lived through the Khmer Rouge era have P.T.S.D.--and its afflictions are being passed to the next generation. His extensive close-up reporting in Cambodia's Curse illuminates the country, its people, and the deep historical roots of its modern-day behavior.
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Genocide in Cambodia : documents from the trial of Pol Pot and Ieng Sary
The Khmer Rouge held power in Cambodia from 1975 to 1979 and aggressively pursued a policy of radical social reform that resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Cambodians through mass executions and physical privation. In January 1979, the government was overthrown by former Khmer Rouge functionaries, with substantial backing from the army of Vietnam. In August of that year a special court, the People's Revolutionary Tribunal, was constituted to try two of the Khmer Rouge government's most powerful leaders, Pol Pot and Ieng Sary. The charge against them was genocide as it was defined in the United Nation's genocide convention of 1948. At the time, both men were in the Cambodian jungle leading the Khmer Rouge in a struggle to regain power; they were, therefore, tried in absentia.
Genocide in Cambodia assembles documents from this historic trial and contains extensive reports from the People's Revolutionary Tribunal. The book opens with essays that discuss the nature of the primary documents, and places the trial in its historical, legal, and political context. The documents are divided into three parts: those relating to the establishment of the tribunal; those used as evidence, including statements of witnesses, investigative reports of mass grave sites, expert opinions on the social and cultural impact of the actions of Pol Pot and Ieng Sary, and accounts from the foreign press; and finally the record of the trial, beginning with the prosecutor's indictment and ending with the concluding speeches by the attorneys for the defense and prosecution.
The trial of Pol Pot and Ieng Sary was the world's first genocide trial based on United Nations's policy as well as the first trial of a head of government on a human rights-related charge. This documentary record is significant for the history of Cambodia, and it will be of the highest importance as well to the international legal and human rights communities.
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