Abstract

Cambodian body-count

The article presents information on the book "The Pol Pot Regime: Race, Power, and Genocide in Cambodia Under the Khmer Rouge, 1975-79," by Ben Kiernan. The story of Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge is as chilling, insane and incredible as that of any genocide in history. By massacre, forced marches, slave labor, starvation and disease, at least 1.5 million Cambodians were killed in the less than four years the Khmer Rouge held power, roughly 20 percent of the country's 8 million. This book provides a deeply detailed, meticulously reported history that will discourage future revisionists from claiming the Khmer Rouge were well-intended reformers who may have been possessed by paranoia from time to time and killed a few people but certainly not the staggering numbers attributed to them.