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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... revolutions of the twentieth century . 9 He has added the destruction of the kulaks in the former Soviet Union [ 1930-37 ] , the mass murder of Cambodia's upper and middle classes by the Khmer Rouge [ 1975-79 ] , and the organized and ...
... revolutions of the twentieth century . 9 He has added the destruction of the kulaks in the former Soviet Union [ 1930-37 ] , the mass murder of Cambodia's upper and middle classes by the Khmer Rouge [ 1975-79 ] , and the organized and ...
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... revolutionary Cambodia as " a prison camp state " where eight million people lived as prisoners in solitary confinement . Worse still , the Khmer Rouge sealed Cambodia off from the rest of the world . By expelling foreign dignitaries ...
... revolutionary Cambodia as " a prison camp state " where eight million people lived as prisoners in solitary confinement . Worse still , the Khmer Rouge sealed Cambodia off from the rest of the world . By expelling foreign dignitaries ...
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... Cambodian revolution and the in- ternal history of the Pol Pot regime as compared to the scant and often speculative literature on the Ethiopian revolution and the Mengistu regime . Dawit Wolde Giorgis , a member of Ethiopia's revolutionary ...
... Cambodian revolution and the in- ternal history of the Pol Pot regime as compared to the scant and often speculative literature on the Ethiopian revolution and the Mengistu regime . Dawit Wolde Giorgis , a member of Ethiopia's revolutionary ...
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... Khmer Rouge . Mass death in Ethiopia in the course of that country's revolution , was a product of state terrorism , civil war and famine . The Dergue ( Ethiopia's revolutionary government ) alone was not responsible for the 2 million ...
... Khmer Rouge . Mass death in Ethiopia in the course of that country's revolution , was a product of state terrorism , civil war and famine . The Dergue ( Ethiopia's revolutionary government ) alone was not responsible for the 2 million ...
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... Khmer Rouge proved that it was ambitious , fanatical , utopian and racist . In fact , Ethiopia's soldier - revolutionaries had no clearly - defined revolutionary ideology beyond imposing national unity and religious and ethnic equal ...
... Khmer Rouge proved that it was ambitious , fanatical , utopian and racist . In fact , Ethiopia's soldier - revolutionaries had no clearly - defined revolutionary ideology beyond imposing national unity and religious and ethnic equal ...
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