Revolution and Genocide in Ethiopia and CambodiaRevolution and Genocide in Ethiopia and Cambodia is the first comparative study of the Ethiopian and Cambodian revolutions of the early 1970s. One of the few comparative studies of genocide in the Third World, this book presents the positions of traditional genocide scholars, but the book's author, Kissi, takes a different position, arguing that the Cambodian genocide and the Ethiopian genocide had very different motives. |
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... similar to the Pol Pot regime . That orthodox view was first floated by the Wall Street Jour- nal in January 1986 , three years before Dawit wrote his book , Red Tears . In its editorial of January 27 , 1986 captioned " Today's Holo ...
... similar to the Pol Pot regime . That orthodox view was first floated by the Wall Street Jour- nal in January 1986 , three years before Dawit wrote his book , Red Tears . In its editorial of January 27 , 1986 captioned " Today's Holo ...
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... similar circumstances . seize In its composition , revolutionary ideology , target groups and scope and scale of killing , the Ethiopian revolutionary regime ( Dergue ) was quali- tatively different from the Khmer Rouge ( Angkor ) . The ...
... similar circumstances . seize In its composition , revolutionary ideology , target groups and scope and scale of killing , the Ethiopian revolutionary regime ( Dergue ) was quali- tatively different from the Khmer Rouge ( Angkor ) . The ...
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... similar to Pol Pot's . But as a leader of a revolutionary regime , Mengistu was more pragmatic and nationalistic and not as utopian as Pol Pot . The Khmer Rouge ideology of racial purity and Khmer ethnic dominance was the direct ...
... similar to Pol Pot's . But as a leader of a revolutionary regime , Mengistu was more pragmatic and nationalistic and not as utopian as Pol Pot . The Khmer Rouge ideology of racial purity and Khmer ethnic dominance was the direct ...
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... similar as they appear to the conduct of the Khmer Rouge , actually had a different intent . They were aimed at enhancing the power of the military regime and its leader by weakening the economic strength and social influence of the ...
... similar as they appear to the conduct of the Khmer Rouge , actually had a different intent . They were aimed at enhancing the power of the military regime and its leader by weakening the economic strength and social influence of the ...
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