🎥 Pol Pot's Reign of Terror and the Cambodian Genocide Part I: The Beginnings
🟤 To the layman, the name Cambodia doesn't mean much; but when you pronounce Pol Pot's name, the Khmer Rouge dictatorship and the associated Cambodian genocide, the horrors of the horror are vaguely recalled. In this lecture, I will explore the influences that shaped Pol Pot's philosophy and ideology, and how it unfolded between 1975 and 1979, into the terrorist state of Democratic Kampuchea that he created. In the first act, we will learn about Pol Pot's period of study in Paris, the main sources of his social transformative aims, and a point in time of his grossly distorted ideals. This lecture is introductory in nature, and will be closely followed by a second. However, in addition to providing basic knowledge, the aim is also to inspire the audience to ask questions that will allow them to dig further into the dark, evil-saturated soil of the Khmer Rouge.
📚 A témában szakirodalomi ajánlásként lásd: / For literature recommendations on the subject, see:
➡ Chandler, D. P. (1992). Brother Number One: A Political Biography of Pol Pot. Boulder, San Francisco and Oxford: Westview Press.
➡ Short, P. (2004). Pol Pot: The History of a Nightmare. London: John Murray.
➡ Hinton, A. L. (2005). Why Did They Kill: Cambodia in the Shadow of Genocide. University of California Press.
➡ Kiernan, B. (2008). The Pol Pot Regime: Race, Power, and Genocide in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, 1975-79. 3rd edition. New Heaven: Yale University Press.
➡ Tyner, J. A. (2017). From Rice Fields to Killing Fields: Nature, Life, and Labor under the Khmer Rouge. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press.
➡ Pheng, P-R. és mtsai (2020, szerk.). A history of Democratic Kampuchea (1975-1979). 2nd edition. Phnom Penh: Documentation Center of Cambodia.
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