Cambodia: Khmer Rouge Regime
(see also Cambodia)
Basics
CIA World Factbook. Includes map.
UN Development Program, Human Development Indicators
On the Web: Articles
Collateral Damage Means Real People. Ben Kiernan, Foreign Policy in Focus ((11/5/02).
On the Web: Specialized Sites
In the Library: Articles
Contemporary Marxism 12-13 (1986). Special issue on Kampuchea/Cambodia.
Bekaert, Jacques. "The Khmer Coalition: Who Wins? Who Loses?," Indochina Issues 28 (9/82).
Caldwell, Malcolm. "Background to the conflict in Indochina," Monthly Review 31,4 (9/79):1-20.
Frieson, Kate. "The political
nature of Democratic Kampuchea," Pacific Affairs 61 (fall 1988):405-27.
Hiebert, Murray (ed.) "Cambodia:
perespectives on the impasse," Indochina Issues 64 (2-3/86).
Hinton, Alexander. "Agents of death: explaining the Cambodian genocide in terms of psychosocial dissonance," American Anthropologist 98,4 (1996):818-31.
Magistad, Mary Kay. "The Khmer Rouge: a profile," Indochina Issues 86 (10/88):1-7.
Palmieri, Victor H. "Famine, media & geopolitics: the Khmer relief effort, 1980," in Cahill (ed.) Famine (Maryknoll, 1982), pp. 19-27.
Pilger, John. "Reseeding the killing fields," Nation (10/1/95):342-46. On U.S. support for Khmer Rouge.
Porter, Gareth. "Storm over Indochina: a political primer," Indochina Issues 25 (may 1982).
Shawcross, William. "Persecution on political, racial or religious grounds," in Gutman & Schieff (eds.) Crimes of War
In the Library: Non-Fiction Books
Ablin, David A. & Marlowe Hood (eds.) The Cambodian Agony (Armonk NY, 1986).
Becker, Elizabeth. When the War Was Over: The Voices of Cambodia’s Revolution & Its People (NY, 1986).
Burchett, Wilfred G. The China-Cambodia-Vietnam Triangle (London: Zed, 1981).
Carney, Timothy M. Communist Party Power in Kampuchea (Cambodia): Documents & Discussion (Cornell Southeast Asia Data Paper #106; Ithaca, 1977).
Chandler, David. Voices from S-21: Terror & History in Pol Pot’s Secret Prison (Berkeley, 1999).
__________. Brother Number One: A Political Biography of Pol Pot (Boulder, 1999).
Chang, Pao-Min. Kampuchea between China & Vietnam (Athens OH, 1985).
Charny, Joel & John Spragens Jr. Obstacles to Recovery in Vietnam & Kampuchea: U.S. Embargo of Humanitarian Aid (Boston, 1984).
Chopra, V.D. New Spring in Kampuchea (New Delhi, 1988).
Criddle, Joan D. & Teeda Butt Mam. To Destroy You is No Loss. The Odyssey of a Cambodian Family (NY: Atlantic Monthly, 1987).
Deac, Wilfred P. Road to the Killing Fields: The Cambodian War of 1970-1975 (College Station TX, 199?).
De Nike, Howard J.; John Quigley & Kenneth J. Robinson (eds.) Genocide in Cambodia: Documents from the Trial of Pol Pot & Ieng Sary (Philadelphia: U. of Pennsylvania, 2000).
Haas, Michael. Genocide by Proxy: Cambodian Pawn on a Superpower Chessboard (NY, 1991).
__________. Cambodia, Pol Pot & the U.S.: The Faustian Pact (NY, 1991).
Him, Chanrithy. When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up under the Khmer Rouge (NY: Norton, 2000).
Jackson, Karl D. (comp.) Cambodia, 1975-78: Rendezvous with Death (Princeton, 1989).
Khieu Samphan. Cambodia’s Economy & Industrial Development (Cornell Southeast Asia Data Paper #111; Ithaca, 1979).
Kiernan, Ben. How Pol Pot Came to Power: A History of Communism in Kampuchea, 1930-1975 (London, 1985).
__________. The Pol Pot Regime. Race, Power & Genocide in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, 1975-1979 (New Haven, 1998).
Kiljunen, Kimmo (ed.) Kampuchea. Decade of the Genocide (London, 1984).
Kobelev, E.V. (ed.) Kampuchea: From Tragedy to Rebirth (Moscow, 1979).
Lawyers Committee for Human Rights. Kampuchea: After the Worst (NY, 1985).
__________. Seeking Shelter: Cambodians in Thailand (NY, 1987).
Morris, Stephen J. Why Vietnam Invaded Cambodia. Political Culture & the Causes of War (Stanford, 1999).
Mysliwiec, Eva. Punishing the Poor: The International Isolation of Kampuchea (Boston, 1987).
Nolan, Keith William. Into Cambodia: Spring Campaign, Summer Offensive, 1970 (Novato CA, 1990).
Osborne, Milton. Before Kampuchea: Preludes to a Tragedy (London, 1984).
__________. Sihanouk: Prince of Light, Prince of Darkness (Honolulu, 1994).
Rowley, Kelvin & Grant Evans. Red Brotherhood at War: Indochina since the Fall of Saigon (London, 1984).
Scott, Peter. Lost Crusade: America’s Secret Cambodian Mercenaries (Annapolis, 1998).
Shawcross, William. Sideshow: Kissinger, Nixon & the Destruction of Cambodia (NY, 1979).
__________. The Quality of Mercy: Cambodia, Holocaust & Modern Conscience (NY, 1984). Critique of Vietnamese occupation & world response food crisis of early 1980’s.
Short, Philip. Pol Pot: Anatomy of a Nightmare (NY: Henry Holt, 2005).
Sihanouk, Norodom (as related to
Wilfred Burchett). My War with the CIA. The Memoirs of Prince Norodom Sihanouk (Harmondsworth, 1973).
Smith, Frank. Interpretive Accounts of the Khmer Rouge Years: Personal Experience
in Cambodian Peasant World View (Madison, 1989).
Szymusiak, Molyda. The Stones Cry Out: A Cambodian Childhood, 1975-1980 (NY, 1986).
Thayer, Nate. The Insanity of Evil. Living Dangerously in Cambodia: A Foreign Correspondent’s Story (NY, 1999).
Vickery, Michael. Cambodia: 1975-1982 (Boston, 1982).